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

From	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 5/6] ubifs: Implement export_operations
Date	2017-05-23 11:00 +0200
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Christoph,

Am 23.05.2017 um 10:48 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> 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?

Correct.

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

Will do.

Thanks,
//richard

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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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