Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 18:09:10 -0700
From: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
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       Karuna sagar K <karunasagark@gmail.com>, Amit Gud <gud@ksu.edu>,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ChunkFS - measuring cross-chunk references
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:53:33PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> Also, is it considered a cross-chunk reference if a directory entry is
> referencing an inode in another group?  Should there be a continuation
> inode in the local group, or is the directory entry itself enough?

(Sorry for the delay; just moved to Portland these last couple of
weeks.)

It is a cross-chunk reference - we can't calculate the correct link
count for the target file unless we have a quick way to get all the
directory entries pointing to an inode.  My current scheme is to
create a continuation inode for the directory in the chunk containing
the inode (if the chunk containing the inode is full, create new
continuation inodes for both in a new chunk).

-VAL
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