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From: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:26:04 +0400
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To: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
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Jan Harkes writes:
 > On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 03:18:07PM +0400, Alexander Lyamin wrote:
 > > And I honestly dont understand whats the other Christoph's worries are about.
 > 

[...]

 > - When reiserfs3 got merged, it introduced iget3 and read_inode2 in the
 >   VFS layer. Later on when I started to use them for Coda I almost
 >   immediately found serious consistency problems, resulting in the
 >   iget4_locked implementation in the 2.5 kernels.
 >   
 >   I don't think anyone ever fixed that race in reiser3. It should hit

Err... it was fixed.


 > Jan
 > 

Nikita.