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Message-ID: <d3501e43-07c7-5e11-7057-dfee8b619caf@nod.at>
Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 10:50:14 +0200
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, david@...ma-star.at,
        dedekind1@...il.com, adrian.hunter@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, bfields@...hat.com,
        marcus.folkesson@...il.com, hyc.lee@...il.com,
        rockdotlee@...il.com, leon.pollak@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] ubifs: Implement export_operations

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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