Re: [fuse-devel] forget inodes

[Stef B. <st...@gm...>]

What interface you're using, lowlevel or high?

Stef

2010/7/1 Paul Schutte <pa...@up...>:
> That is why I say I think I stumbled onto a bug.
> It looks like the lookup count (on the fuse side) does get incremented
> even when the LINK request fails.
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> Regards
> Paul
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> On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 15:34 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Jul 2010, Paul Schutte wrote:
>> > This is how I understand it, but there is a problem if the filesystem
>> > does not implement hardlinks.
>> >
>> > On the fuse side it does the N+1 thing when doing a hardlink and expects
>> > you to do N+1 on the users space side as well. Except you can't because
>> > you did'nt implement hardlinks, so in user space you still sit with N.
>> >
>> > Now in forget fuse want's you to forget (N+1) references. If you do that
>> > you end up with N-(N+1)=-1 and there is the problem.
>>
>> I don't understand.  If the filesystem doesn't implement hard links
>> then the LINK request will fail and the lookup count will not be
>> incremented.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Miklos
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