Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264884AbTFLQlk (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:41:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264887AbTFLQlk (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:41:40 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:23053 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264884AbTFLQlj (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:41:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:55:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Trond Myklebust cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com, John M Flinchbaugh , , Maneesh Soni Subject: Re: 2.5.70-bk16: nfs crash In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 690 Lines: 20 On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > How about something like this.. It still breaks if the _target_ is > unhashed Actually, it doesn't _break_, it just does something surprising (but possibly quite correct): it will hash the dentry to the same hash chain the target _used_ to be on before being unhashed. Which might actually be the right thing, but it still sounds to me like a bad idea to have a unhashed target. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/