Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status

Joel Becker
2005-06-27T19:46:57Z

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:26:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> drop_inode is not going to die, we need it to support filesystems that
> want to call generic_delete_inode even for a non-null i_nlink. What's
> hopefully going to die is the last instance of it that isn't either
> generic_drop_inode or generic_delete_inode.

OCFS2 uses drop_inode as well, as it must handle last-close when
another node did the unlink. It fixes up i_nlink in that case, then
calls generic_drop_inode().
If there's a more elegant solution, we're all ears.

Joel

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