Re: 2.4.15-pre9 breakage (inode.c)

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 24 Nov 2001 01:31:18 -0500 (EST)


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?

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