Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Apr 2004 10:23:03 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cowlinks v2 |
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Hi!
> > Could you not change it back to a normal inode when refcount becomes 1? > > You can only do that if the cowid object has a pointer to the last > remaining reference to it. That's possible, but more complicated and > would incur a little more I/O per cow operation.
You'd have to have pointers to all references to it... because you can't tell in advance which one will be the last to go away.
But I agree its not a big problem. Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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