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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] monitor zeroing of i_nlink
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 18:14:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809171405.GF7324@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060809165734.B81884DC@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:57:34AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> Some filesystems, instead of simply decrementing i_nlink, simply zero
> it during an unlink operation.  We need to catch these in addition
> to the decrement operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


btw, what about adding some nice kerneldoc for all the *_nlink helpers
you added?

> ---
> 
>  kernel/fork.c                |    0 

something is screwed up in your diffstats :)


      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-09 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-09 16:57 [PATCH 0/6] read-only bind mount prep work Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 1/6] prepare for write access checks: collapse if() Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 17:18     ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 2/6] r/o bind mount prepwork: move open_namei()'s vfs_create() Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 3/6] unlink: monitor i_nlink Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 17:17     ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 18:27       ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-12 14:15         ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 4/6] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 5/6] clean up OCFS2 nlink handling Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-09 19:15     ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-10  8:07       ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-08-10 19:06         ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-11  9:38           ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-08-09 16:57 ` [PATCH 6/6] monitor zeroing of i_nlink Dave Hansen
2006-08-09 17:14   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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