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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:39:01 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:15:57PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> maybe not but I need to check some more bit to be sure.

yes we probably don't need it for fs against fs in 2.4 because we make
the new metadata block visible to a reader (splice) only after they're
all uptodate and all directory operations are serialized by the vfs
(with the i_zombie).

Andrea
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