Re: ext2fs: inode with zero dtime

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:25:13 -0300


In message <199809011403.PAA02123@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, "Stephen C. Tweedie"
write
s:
+-----
| That allows us to remount readonly then rw again quite safely. On
| mounting readwrite, or on remounting the fs after a reboot, any orphaned
| files can be found and deleted as part of the mount system call. This
+--->8

Can you tell whether the file is actually reclaimable at that point, though?
If I:

mount -o remount,ro /
mount -o remount,rw /

after modifying libc.so or ld.so.cache, etc., the still in-use libc.so would
be deleted at that point according to your statement above... and init & co.
would likely crash.

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system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university

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