Re: [PATCH] cowlinks v2

Pavel Machek
2004-04-03T08:23:18Z

Hi!

> > Could you not change it back to a normal inode when refcount becomes 1?
>
> You can only do that if the cowid object has a pointer to the last
> remaining reference to it. That's possible, but more complicated and
> would incur a little more I/O per cow operation.

You'd have to have pointers to all references to it... because you
can't tell in advance which one will be the last to go away.

But I agree its not a big problem.
Pavel
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