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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:22:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [patch] linux likes to kill bad inodes
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Any reason a bad inode can't have its i_sb changed to a bad_inode_fs ?

That would be my personal preference too, this was just the quick hack
version.

Changing superblocks might have other consequences (like getting the
superblock inode lists right etc).

		Linus

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