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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: fishy ->put_inode usage in ntfs
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:42:54 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:40:39PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> I am not sure what you mean.  The VFS layer does reference counting on
> inodes.  I have no choice in the matter.
> 
> > Can someone ever grab a reference separate from it's master inode?
> 
> Again, not sure what you mean.  Could you elaborate?

ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode() does igrab on the 'parent' inode
currently.  What do you need this for exactly - the attr inode
goes away anyway when clear_inode is called on that 'parent' inode
(in my scheme).