> On 30 May 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>> Al: Is there any reason why the cases
>>
>> if (!inode->i_nlink)
>>
>> and the 'magic nfs path' should be treated differently?
>> Personally, I'd rather prefer to merge the 2.
> I don't think that it's a good idea. Why not fry the cache
> explicitly when you invalidate the inode?
Won't there be a race there? Imagine if some other process is busy
writing to that inode, and happens to add a new page after we've
truncated...
Cheers,
Trond
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