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Teach inode inactivation to delete all the incore buffers backing a directory. In normal runtime this should never happen because the VFS forbids rmdir on a non-empty directory. In the next patch, online directory repair stands up a new directory, exchanges it with the broken directory, and then drops the private temporary directory. If we cancel the repair just prior to exchanging the directory contents, the new directory will need to be torn down. Note: If we commit the repair, reaping will take care of all the ondisk space allocations and incore buffers for the old corrupt directory. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.