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Message-ID: <87fw6x90o3.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp>
Date:	Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:07:40 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bfields@...ldses.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>,
	Ravishankar N <ravi.n1@...sung.com>,
	Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] fat: eliminate orphaned inode number allocation

OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp> writes:

> Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com> writes:
>
>> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
>>
>> Maintain a list of inode(i_pos) numbers of orphaned inodes (i.e the
>> inodes that have been unlinked but still having open file
>> descriptors).At file/directory creation time, skip using such i_pos
>> values.Removal of the i_pos from the list is done during inode eviction.
>
> What happens if the directory (has busy entries) was completely removed?
>
>
> And Al's point is important for NFS too. If you want stable ino for NFS,
> you never can't change it.

s/never can't/never can/
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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