Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161121AbXALWIA (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:08:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161124AbXALWIA (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:08:00 -0500 Received: from fe02.tochka.ru ([62.5.255.22]:43453 "EHLO umail.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161120AbXALWH7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:07:59 -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> <45A80213.5060401@redhat.com> <45A80544.2030803@redhat.com> X-Comment-To: Eric Sandeen Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:07:55 +0300 In-Reply-To: <45A80544.2030803@redhat.com> (Eric Sandeen's message of "Fri\, 12 Jan 2007 16\:01\:40 -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: 667 Lines: 20 >>>>> Eric Sandeen (ES) writes: ES> Al says "no" and I'm not arguing. :) ES> Apparently this may be OK with some filesystems, and Al says he doesn't ES> want to know about i_nlink in the vfs in any case. well, generic_drop_inode() uses i_nlink ... ES> But I suppose there may be other filesystems which DO care, and should ES> be checking if they're not. this is why I thought VFS could take care. 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/