GFS2: free disk inode which is deleted by remote node -V2
this patch is for the same problem that Benjamin Marzinski fixes at commit b94a170e quotation of the original problem: ---cut here--- When a file is deleted from a gfs2 filesystem on one node, a dcache entry for it may still exist on other nodes in the cluster. If this happens, gfs2 will be unable to free this file on disk. Because of this, it's possible to have a gfs2 filesystem with no files on it and no free space. With this patch, when a node receives a callback notifying it that the file is being deleted on another node, it schedules a new workqueue thread to remove the file's dcache entry. ---end cut--- after applying Benjamin's patch, I think there is still a case in which the disk inode remains even when "no space" is hit. the case is that when running d_prune_aliases() against the inode, there are one or more dentries(aliases) which have reference count number > 0. in this case the dentries won't be prune...
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