On Tue, 13 May 2008, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Out of curiosity, how can you drop socket inode, since it is always > attached to socket which is removed automatically when connection is > closed. Any force of dropping socket inode can only result in connection > drop, i.e. there are no inodes, which are placed in cache and are not > yet freed, if there are no attached sockets. > > So question is how does it work for sockets? All inodes are inactivated and put on a lru before they are freed. Those could be reclaimed by inode defrag. Socket inode defrag is not that important. Just shows that this can be applied in a general way. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
