Re: reiser4 plugins (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

Nikita Danilov
2004-08-28T16:34:13Z

Jan Harkes writes:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 03:18:07PM +0400, Alexander Lyamin wrote:
> > And I honestly dont understand whats the other Christoph's worries are about.
>

[...]

> - When reiserfs3 got merged, it introduced iget3 and read_inode2 in the
> VFS layer. Later on when I started to use them for Coda I almost
> immediately found serious consistency problems, resulting in the
> iget4_locked implementation in the 2.5 kernels.
>
> I don't think anyone ever fixed that race in reiser3. It should hit

Err... it was fixed.

> Jan
>

Nikita.