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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: "'Linux-MTD Mailing List'" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	"Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>,
	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"Joakim Tjernlund" <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Subject: Re: getdents64 problem in 2.6.23
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:49:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071028234950.GA25386@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071028182836.GE14076@mail.shareable.org>

On Sun, 28 October 2007 18:28:36 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> However, I think it's fine to _overwrite_ the deletion dirents with
> new ones.  getdentds() allows new names created during a directory
> read to appear or not in the lsit.

Correct.  You can delete/overwrite dentries, but you may not rearrange
their order wrt. i_pos cookies.

Jörn

-- 
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
-- Publilius Syrus

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-28 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-24 13:47 getdents64 problem in 2.6.23 Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-25 21:36 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-26 19:13 ` David Woodhouse
2007-10-26 23:03   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-26 23:17     ` David Woodhouse
2007-10-27 11:02       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-27 12:44         ` David Woodhouse
2007-10-27 15:01           ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-27 17:09             ` David Woodhouse
2007-10-27 17:20               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-27 20:31                 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-27 22:36                   ` David Woodhouse
2007-10-28  0:04                     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-27 23:18       ` Jörn Engel
2007-10-28  2:00         ` David Woodhouse
2007-10-28 11:52           ` Jörn Engel
2007-10-28 18:28         ` Jamie Lokier
2007-10-28 23:49           ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2007-10-28 23:58             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-29  0:26               ` David Woodhouse
2007-10-29 12:58                 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-29 17:30                   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-29 23:41                     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-30 17:42                       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-31  2:08                         ` David Woodhouse

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