Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750999AbVIUOrG (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:47:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751020AbVIUOrG (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:47:06 -0400 Received: from agminet03.oracle.com ([141.146.126.230]:6054 "EHLO agminet03.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750999AbVIUOrE (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:47:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:45:38 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro , John McCutchan , Linus Torvalds , Ray Lee , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Robert Love , ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: [patch] stop inotify from sending random DELETE_SELF event under load Message-ID: <20050921144538.GI26425@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro , John McCutchan , Linus Torvalds , Ray Lee , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Robert Love , ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com References: <20050920182249.GP7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <1127256814.749.5.camel@vertex> <20050921010154.GR7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <1127266907.3950.5.camel@vertex> <20050921023601.GT7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20050921083525.GB27254@infradead.org> <20050921091524.GG26425@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20050921091738.GA28289@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050921091738.GA28289@infradead.org> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 883 Lines: 27 On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:17:38AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The real fix would be to put an equivalent of OCFS2_INODE_MAYBE_ORPHANED > into struct inode. That way it could be shared by other clustered > filesystems aswell, and OCFS2 had no need to implement ->drop_inode. Or change the VFS patterns to allow lookup and validation of the inode before choosing the generic_drop/generic_delete path. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #197 "Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated." Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - 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/