Namjae Jeon <linkinj...@gmail.com> writes:

> 2012/9/5, OGAWA Hirofumi <hirof...@mail.parknet.co.jp>:
>> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirof...@mail.parknet.co.jp> writes:
>>
>>> Namjae Jeon <linkinj...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.j...@samsung.com>
>>>>
>>>> Maintain a list of inode(i_pos) numbers of orphaned inodes (i.e the
>>>> inodes that have been unlinked but still having open file
>>>> descriptors).At file/directory creation time, skip using such i_pos
>>>> values.Removal of the i_pos from the list is done during inode eviction.
>>>
>>> What happens if the directory (has busy entries) was completely removed?
> Hi OGAWA.
> There are 2 cases:
> 1. The cluster can be used as a data cluster of a file - In which case
> we can write
> normally into it.
> 2. The cluster can be allocated to a new directory. In this case, the busy 
> i_pos
> locations can not be used to create new entries until the correspnding
> inodes are
> evicted.

In the (2) case, it has problem. Directory must not have de->name[0] == 0
in middle of entires.  "0" means the end of directory.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirof...@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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