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Re: [PATCH 5/6] ubifs: Implement export_operations

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 5/6] ubifs: Implement export_operations
Date 2017-05-23 10:50 +0200
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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:41:16AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> UBIFS has no inode generations, inodes simply can't wrap around.
> We "handle" it like JFF2 does, we assumes that the NAND is long dead
> before we reach the maximum inode number.

So you never ever reuse an inode number once it's been unlinked and
the last opener went away?

If that is the case please add a comment explaining this next to
the get_inode helper.

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[PATCH 5/6] ubifs: Implement export_operations Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-05-21 22:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 5/6] ubifs: Implement export_operations Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-23 10:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 5/6] ubifs: Implement export_operations Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-05-23 10:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 5/6] ubifs: Implement export_operations Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-23 10:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 5/6] ubifs: Implement export_operations Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-05-23 11:00 +0200

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