On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Abhishek Sharma <[email protected]>wrote:
> I understand that the kernel locks an inode during system calls. Say for > example the kernel has read an inode in main memory due to a particular > system call and all the fields are set. > > But i dint clearly understand how does reference count associated with > an inode work and whats its use? > > -Abhishek. > > Hi Abhishek, The inode reference count is not related to the locks. An inode's reference count value indicates the number of hard links pointing to the inode. It is decremented every time a hard link is deleted (file pertaining to a hard link is removed). The file is deleted only when the reference count reaches zero. Namita [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
