Re: Linux 2.5.3-pre3

Alexander Viro
2002-01-22T01:55:40Z

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The inode thing has left umsdos broken, but Al promises to have that fixed
> soonish.

Umm... Actually in -pre3 UMSDOS is still functional (and ->u.umsdos_inode_info
is still there). I'll break it in the next series of patches ;-)

BTW, maintainers of filesystems are welcome to send patches. Stuff in
ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/MA* should be enough to figure it out - everything
is fairly straightforward.

Two notes:
* unlike the ->u, private components of inode are _not_
zeroed out by VFS in the new scheme, so you need to do explicit
initialization in foo_read_inode()/foo_new_inode.
* please, call the generic part 'vfs_inode'. In this case it's
more than just being consistent - it avoids tons of false positives
in sanity checks (in general a structure with struct inode as a field
is bad news)