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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
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To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: Add extended attributes to ext2/3
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:18:11 +0200
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On Wednesday 16 October 2002 00:09, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > Just as an FYI - marking ext3 inodes dirty is an expensive operation,
> > and should be done only once if at all possible (not sure if the same
> > code applies to ext3 as you are discussing ext2, but I thought I should
> > mention it).
>
> Then I should really think out something to improve that. Thanks.

Can I be sure that it's safe to:
 - move mark_inode_dirty() below unlock_super() in ext2
 - move ext3_mark_inode_dirty() below unlock_super() ext3
in ext[23]_new_inode()?

Thanks.

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