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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/6] ubifs: Implement export_operations
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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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