Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/6] ubifs: Implement export_operations | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Date | Tue, 23 May 2017 10:50:14 +0200 |
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Christoph,
Am 23.05.2017 um 10:48 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:41:16AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> UBIFS has no inode generations, inodes simply can't wrap around. >> We "handle" it like JFF2 does, we assumes that the NAND is long dead >> before we reach the maximum inode number. > > So you never ever reuse an inode number once it's been unlinked and > the last opener went away?
Correct.
> If that is the case please add a comment explaining this next to > the get_inode helper.
Will do.
Thanks, //richard
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