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Kent Overstreet
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This patch adds two new inode fields, bi_dir and bi_dir_offset, that point back to the inode's dirent. Since we're only adding fields for a single backpointer, files that have been hardlinked won't necessarily have valid backpointers: we also add a new inode flag, BCH_INODE_BACKPTR_UNTRUSTED, that's set if an inode has ever had multiple links to it. That's ok, because we only really need this functionality for directories, which can never have multiple hardlinks - when we add subvolumes, we'll need a way to enemurate and print subvolumes, and this will let us reconstruct a path to a subvolume root given a subvolume root inode. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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