On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 05:08:24 -0000, [email protected] said: > Are you talking about an orphaned inode?
No - orphaned is the state the inode ends up in if the file was open but unlinked when the system is rebooted. At that point, the inode is still there (since it was never reclaimed before the reboot) but not listed in any directory, so its reference count has indeed become zero. An unlinked inode still has a non-zero reference count (due to the open file descriptor onthe file).
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