From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] remove ext3 inode from orphan list when link and unlink race
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:01:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A80544.2030803@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hcuvzz88.fsf@bzzz.home.net>
Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Eric Sandeen (ES) writes:
> ES> I tend to agree, chatting w/ Al I think he does too. :) I'll test
> ES> a patch that kicks out ext3_link() with -ENOENT at the top, and resubmit
> ES> that if things go well.
>
> shouldn't VFS do that?
Al says "no" and I'm not arguing. :)
Apparently this may be OK with some filesystems, and Al says he doesn't
want to know about i_nlink in the vfs in any case.
But I suppose there may be other filesystems which DO care, and should
be checking if they're not.
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-12 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-12 20:45 [PATCH] [RFC] remove ext3 inode from orphan list when link and unlink race Eric Sandeen
2007-01-12 21:02 ` Alex Tomas
2007-01-12 21:14 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-12 21:25 ` Alex Tomas
2007-01-12 21:48 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-12 21:55 ` Alex Tomas
2007-01-12 22:01 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-01-12 22:07 ` Alex Tomas
2007-01-12 22:35 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-12 21:17 ` Alex Tomas
2007-01-12 21:24 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-01-14 11:58 ` Dmitriy Monakhov
2007-01-14 15:42 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-17 22:43 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-01-17 22:47 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-18 10:43 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-01-18 15:28 ` Eric Sandeen
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