linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] fat: eliminate orphaned inode number allocation

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Date:	Tue, 4 Sep 2012 15:25:09 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.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>,
	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] fat: eliminate orphaned inode number allocation

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 04:02:13AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 02:07:40AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> >> 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/
> >
> > If vfat exports aren't fixable, maybe we should just remove that
> > feature?
> >
> > I'm afraid that having unfixable half-working vfat exports is just an
> > attractive nuisance that causes users and developers to waste their
> > time....
> 
> In historically, it was introduced by Neil Brown, when nfs export
> interface was rewritten (I'm not sure what was intended).
> 
> Personally, I'm ok to remove it though, it is really personal
> opinion. The state would be rather I don't have strong opinion to
> remove.

Neil, any opinion?

If we can document circumstances under which nfs exports of fat
filesystems are reliable, fine.

Otherwise I'd rather just be clear that we don't support it.

--b.
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