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Re: [PATCH] log replay should not overwrite newer ondisk inodes

from [Vlad Apostolov] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] log replay should not overwrite newer ondisk inodes
From: Vlad Apostolov <vapo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:50:51 +1000
Cc: Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>, Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@xxxxxxx>, Timothy Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxx>, xfs-dev <xfs-dev@xxxxxxx>, xfs-oss <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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David Chinner wrote: 
An unlinked inode is only detectable by the mode parameter being zero.
The rest of the inode will look valid.

What about the nlink count? Can't we detect unlinked inode by nlink == 0?

Regards,
Vlad


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