ovl: persistent overlay inode nlink for indexed inodes
With inodes index enabled, an overlay inode nlink counts the union of upper and non-covered lower hardlinks. During the lifetime of a non-pure upper inode, the following nlink modifying operations can happen: 1. Lower hardlink copy up 2. Upper hardlink created, unlinked or renamed over 3. Lower hardlink whiteout or renamed over For the first, copy up case, the union nlink does not change, whether the operation succeeds or fails, but the upper inode nlink may change. Therefore, before copy up, we store the union nlink value relative to the lower inode nlink in the index inode xattr trusted.overlay.nlink. For the second, upper hardlink case, the union nlink should be incremented or decremented IFF the operation succeeds, aligned with nlink change of the upper inode. Therefore, before link/unlink/rename, we store the union nlink value relative to the upper inode nlink in the index inode. For the last, lower cover up case, we simplify things by preceding the whiteout or cover up with copy up. This makes sure that there is an index upper inode where the nlink xattr can be stored before the copied up upper entry is unlink. Return the overlay inode nlinks for indexed upper inodes on stat(2). Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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