From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: viro@math.psu.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about ext2
Date: 13 Jul 2001 22:22:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84l4sXb1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107130623510.17323-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107130623510.17323-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro) wrote on 13.07.01 in <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107130623510.17323-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>:
> The only really obscure part is dropping an extra reference if victim is
> a directory - then we know that we are cannibalizing the last external
> link to it and the only link that remains is victim's ".". We don't want
> it to prevent victim's removal, so we drive i_nlink of victim to zero.
Does this stuff work right with those cases which do linkcount=1 either
because the fs doesn't have a link count, or because the real link count
has grown too large?
MfG Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-13 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-13 8:08 Question about ext2 malfet
2001-07-13 8:42 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-13 9:57 ` Re[2]: " malfet
2001-07-13 10:23 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-13 10:57 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-13 20:22 ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2001-07-14 5:58 ` Alexander Viro
2001-07-14 11:37 ` Kai Henningsen
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