Artem, Am 15.05.2017 um 18:05 schrieb Artem Bityutskiy: > On Mon, 2017-05-15 at 17:22 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Alternatively we could add a iget_locked/drop_nlink/iput sequence to >> ubifs_tnc_remove_ino(). But that will make unlink() much slower for >> files >> that contain xattrs. > > At that level we'd need to do it for every xattr, even those that were > never be accessed, which would be slow indeed. > > But we really only need to check the inode cache: hey, icache, I am > dying, and if you have any of my guys (xattrs), I want them to die with > me. > > So the question is how to find our guys in the inode cache. I am not > sure. Probably be we'd have to have our own list of cached inodes in > the host inode, and maintain it. BTW: Do you happen to know how other filesystems cache xattrs? If they actually do. Thanks, //richard