From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" Subject: Re: [PATCH] BKL: Remove BKL from isofs Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:40:55 +0600 Message-ID: <4C978087.7060802@gmail.com> References: <201009161632.59210.arnd@arndb.de> <201009172100.06598.arnd@arndb.de> <20100920105811.GC3390@quack.suse.cz> <201009201313.11526.arnd@arndb.de> <20100920151834.GF3390@quack.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kara Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100920151834.GF3390@quack.suse.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org [I know nothing about linux filesystem code, please disregard this mail if it is stupid] 20.09.2010 21:18, Jan Kara wrote: > BKL isn't needed for isofs at all so we can just remove it. Generally, since > isofs is always mounted read-only, filesystem structure cannot change under us. Does your statement also cover the case of read errors on scratched CD-ROMs (i.e., the driver has successfully read a sector with a directory once after a lot of strugging, and failed the next time), or ejects of mounted media? -- Alexander E. Patrakov