* [PATCH 1/4] fat: allocate persistent inode numbers
@ 2012-08-18 9:42 Namjae Jeon
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From: Namjae Jeon @ 2012-08-18 9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: hirofumi, akpm
Cc: linux-kernel, Namjae Jeon, Namjae Jeon, Ravishankar N,
Amit Sahrawat
From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
All the files on a FAT partition have an on-disk directory entry.
The location of these entries, i_pos, is unique and is constructed by the
fat_make_i_pos() function.We can use this as the inode number making it
peristent across remounts.
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravishankar N <ravi.n1@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
---
fs/fat/inode.c | 2 +-
fs/fat/namei_vfat.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/fat/inode.c b/fs/fat/inode.c
index 973296b..cf111a0 100644
--- a/fs/fat/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fat/inode.c
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ struct inode *fat_build_inode(struct super_block *sb,
inode = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
goto out;
}
- inode->i_ino = iunique(sb, MSDOS_ROOT_INO);
+ inode->i_ino = i_pos;
inode->i_version = 1;
err = fat_fill_inode(inode, de);
if (err) {
diff --git a/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c b/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c
index e535dd7..ffb4814 100644
--- a/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c
+++ b/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c
@@ -954,6 +954,7 @@ static int vfat_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
new_dir->i_version++;
fat_detach(old_inode);
+ old_inode->i_ino = new_i_pos;
fat_attach(old_inode, new_i_pos);
if (IS_DIRSYNC(new_dir)) {
err = fat_sync_inode(old_inode);
--
1.7.9.5
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