On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 05:48:07PM +0300, Nir Tzachar wrote: > im implementing a stackable file system. > i have a problem with the underlying file system after i delete a file -> > i keep getting orphaned inodes . I have not seen the term actually used, but I think it means an inode, that has non-zero link count, but no dentries pointing to it are to be found. > can some please explain what is exactly an orphaned inode, so i can trace > my implementation for bugs?? You are probably doing the reference-counting wrong. You should check, that when you delete a dentry, the inode's nlink count is decremented and the inode is properly marked dirty (so the nlink count makes it to disk). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
