From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] unlink: monitor i_nlink
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 18:11:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809171109.GC7324@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060809165732.07F0AD16@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:57:32AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> When a filesystem decrements i_nlink to zero, it means that a
> write must be performed in order to drop the inode from the
> filesystem.
>
> We're shortly going to have keep filesystems from being remounted
> r/o between the time that this i_nlink decrement and that write
> occurs.
>
> So, add a little helper function to do the decrements. We'll
> tie into it in a bit to note when i_nlink hits zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Note that we all (and especially Andrew :)) need to be carefull not to
introduce unguarded i_nlink decrements again. Dave, you'll probably need
to do another audit when you introduce the real functionality.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-09 16:57 [PATCH 0/6] read-only bind mount prep work Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 1/6] prepare for write access checks: collapse if() Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 17:18 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 2/6] r/o bind mount prepwork: move open_namei()'s vfs_create() Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 4/6] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 3/6] unlink: monitor i_nlink Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:11 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-08-09 17:17 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 18:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-12 14:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 5/6] clean up OCFS2 nlink handling Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 19:15 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-10 8:07 ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-08-10 19:06 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-11 9:38 ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 6/6] monitor zeroing of i_nlink Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
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