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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:14:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] linux likes to kill bad inodes
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> However, since make_bad_inode() only changes the file methods and not
> the superblock

Please just make "make_bad_inode()" just do

	inode->i_sb = bad_super_block;

and do everything else too.

It's not acceptable to make low-level filesystems care about these things.

		Linus

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