Re: [PATCH] fuse: mark all aliases of an inode stale in unlink

[Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>]

On 01/20/2012 08:10 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> Untested patch below.  Does that work for you?
>
> Thanks,
> Miklos
>
>
> diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
> index 2066328..517a7f5 100644
> --- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
> @@ -645,12 +645,7 @@ static int fuse_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *entry)
>   	if (!err) {
>   		struct inode *inode = entry->d_inode;
>
> -		/*
> -		 * Set nlink to zero so the inode can be cleared, if the inode
> -		 * does have more links this will be discovered at the next
> -		 * lookup/getattr.
> -		 */
> -		clear_nlink(inode);
> +		drop_nlink(inode);
>   		fuse_invalidate_attr(inode);
>   		fuse_invalidate_attr(dir);
>   		fuse_invalidate_entry_cache(entry);

That will work for me!

Thanks,
Avati