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

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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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