Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161119AbXALWBz (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:01:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161120AbXALWBz (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:01:55 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44019 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161116AbXALWBx (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:01:53 -0500 Message-ID: <45A80544.2030803@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:01:40 -0600 From: Eric Sandeen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Tomas CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , ext4 development Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] remove ext3 inode from orphan list when link and unlink race References: <45A7F384.3050303@redhat.com> <45A7FA3C.8030209@redhat.com> <45A80213.5060401@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 22 Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>> Eric Sandeen (ES) writes: > ES> I tend to agree, chatting w/ Al I think he does too. :) I'll test > ES> a patch that kicks out ext3_link() with -ENOENT at the top, and resubmit > ES> that if things go well. > > shouldn't VFS do that? Al says "no" and I'm not arguing. :) Apparently this may be OK with some filesystems, and Al says he doesn't want to know about i_nlink in the vfs in any case. But I suppose there may be other filesystems which DO care, and should be checking if they're not. -Eric - 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/