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Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc6 Oops with Software RAID, LVM, JFS, NFS
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On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 20:40 -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

> I'm new here, if the inode isn't being watched, what's to stop d_delete 
> from removing the inode before fsnotify_unlink proceeds to use it?

Nothing.  But check out

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7a91bf7f5c22c8407a9991cbd9ce5bb87caa6b4a

Should solve this problem?

	Robert Love