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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Ray Lee <ray@madrabbit.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Robert Love <rml@novell.com>,
	ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:45:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050921144538.GI26425@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050921091738.GA28289@infradead.org>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-21 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-20  0:48 [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load John McCutchan
2005-09-20  1:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20  2:00   ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20  2:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20  3:46       ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20  4:03         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20  4:24           ` Al Viro
2005-09-20  4:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20  4:36             ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20  4:46               ` Al Viro
2005-09-20  4:53                 ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20  4:58                   ` Al Viro
2005-09-20  5:06                     ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20  5:17                       ` Al Viro
2005-09-20 12:34                         ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20 16:38                           ` Al Viro
2005-09-20 17:44                             ` Ray Lee
2005-09-20 18:12                               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 18:22                                 ` Al Viro
2005-09-20 19:37                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 22:53                                     ` John McCutchan
2005-09-21  0:33                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-21  0:52                                         ` John McCutchan
2005-09-21  1:01                                       ` Al Viro
2005-09-21  1:41                                         ` John McCutchan
2005-09-21  2:36                                           ` Al Viro
2005-09-21  8:35                                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-21  9:15                                               ` Joel Becker
2005-09-21  9:17                                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-21 14:45                                                   ` Joel Becker [this message]
2005-09-21 18:08                                                     ` Mark Fasheh
2005-09-20 18:26                             ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20 19:39                               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20  4:56                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20  4:52               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20  4:27           ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20  3:33     ` Al Viro
2005-09-20  3:50       ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20  3:31   ` Al Viro
2005-09-20  3:51     ` John McCutchan
2005-09-20  8:33   ` Christoph Hellwig

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