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Message-ID: <CAKYAXd_kJtK85iabM=-ObJSC2qo36mkVsQ1VhaYk3WBNKn9uhg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:58:35 +0900
From:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] fat: fix ESTALE errors

2012/8/21, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>:
> Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com> writes:
>
>> And.. Hi Ogawa.
>> I checked other filesystem about unlink - inode issue. but I found
>> Ext4 have same issue.
>> Although other filesysm is having this issue, Can we think It could be
>> only FAT issue ?
>
> (I assume this issue == orphaned inode issue).
>
> ext* doesn't have this issue. If ext* made orphaned inode, ext* doesn't
> delete inode from inode table until calling iput() from last referencer.
>
> In FAT case, FAT inode is embedded into dir entry. So, if unlinked inode
> (then orphaned inode is detached (fat_detach())), FAT deletes inode (dir
> entry) from dir.
Sorry for my mistake. You're right.
I am looking up other solution.
Thanks
> --
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
>
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