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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 07:44:00 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: 2.4.15-pre9 breakage (inode.c)
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 01:31:18AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > you are screwed because you were running a broken filesystem: it is its
> > own business to drop the inodes if it fails, all it needs to do is to
> > call invalidate_inodes(s) internally before returning from the read_super
> > in the failure case.
> 
> Cute.  Do you realize that _every_ fs would have to do that?

I don't care who has to do it, but who has to do it it has to do it in a
very very very very slow path, and you want to handle it in iput fast
path instead, cute?

Andrea
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