Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161095AbXALV0r (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:26:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161085AbXALV0r (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:26:47 -0500 Received: from fe02.tochka.ru ([62.5.255.22]:46333 "EHLO umail.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161082AbXALV0p (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:26:45 -0500 From: Alex Tomas To: Eric Sandeen Cc: Alex Tomas , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ext4 development Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] remove ext3 inode from orphan list when link and unlink race Organization: CFS References: <45A7F384.3050303@redhat.com> <45A7FA3C.8030209@redhat.com> X-Comment-To: Eric Sandeen Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:25:28 +0300 In-Reply-To: <45A7FA3C.8030209@redhat.com> (Eric Sandeen's message of "Fri\, 12 Jan 2007 15\:14\:36 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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: 593 Lines: 16 >>>>> Eric Sandeen (ES) writes: ES> so I think it's possible that link can sneak in there & find it after ES> the mutex is dropped...? Is this ok? :) It's certainly -happening- ES> anyway.... yes, but it shouldn't allow to re-link such inode back, IMHO. a filesystem may start some non-revertable activity in its unlink method. thanks, Alex - 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/