Re: [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load

Joel Becker
2005-09-21T14:47:06Z

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:17:38AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The real fix would be to put an equivalent of OCFS2_INODE_MAYBE_ORPHANED
> into struct inode. That way it could be shared by other clustered
> filesystems aswell, and OCFS2 had no need to implement ->drop_inode.

Or change the VFS patterns to allow lookup and validation of the
inode before choosing the generic_drop/generic_delete path.

Joel

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