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Message-ID: <45AEA789.20407@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:47:37 -0600
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
CC: ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] remove ext3 inode from orphan list when link and
unlink race
Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2007 14:45 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> p.s. ext3_inc_count and ext3_dec_count seem misnamed, have an unused
>> arg, and are very infrequently called. I'll probably submit a patch
>> to just put the single line of code into the caller, too.
>
> I use those functions in the > 32000 subdirs patch to handle the case
> where a directory overflows the i_nlinks counter and needs to be set
> to have i_nlinks = 1.
>
> Patch was posted previously, but rejected because there is a potential
> for directory loss if the filesystem is mounted on an older kernel
> (i_nlinks == 1, subdir is removed, directory is truncated). I need to
> add an ROCOMPAT feature in order to handle this, but haven't gotten
> around to doing it.
Ah, ok. Sorry I'd missed that. Can we at least rename them to
something that makes sense? :)
-Eric
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Principal Software Engineer
> Cluster File Systems, Inc.
>
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