Re: [PATCH NFSv2] Drop inode after rename

[Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:56:05AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> ...but it should be unnecessary.
> 
> d_delete() is supposed to cause the inode to be dropped: if it cannot
> immediately iput the inode, it will drop the dentry. So unless there
> exists a hard link or an aliased dentry, the inode should get dropped
> and freed pretty rapidly.

AFAIR the problem is that i_nlink doesn't get decremented and
therefore the inode doesn't get deleted.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@suse.de
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