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    ovl: persistent overlay inode nlink for indexed inodes · 5f8415d6
    Amir Goldstein authored
    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: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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