Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Mar 1999 15:46:18 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Odd code in iput() (since 2.1.60). What for? |
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Folks, could somebody recall why the check for I_DIRTY had been added to iput()? AFAICS it does nothing. If the inode is hashed and clean it's already on inode_in_use, otherwise we are in *big* trouble (the only reason for that might be crazy ->delete_inode() doing insert_inode_hash(). Was it a preparation for undelete or what?) I have to tweak inode.c for FAT fixes and I'm not too happy about the perspective of tweaking code if I don't understand its parts ;-/ Especially in such place. Code in question had been added in 2.1.60 and I couldn't find any discussion in archives ;-/ Could somebody help with it? Cheers, Al
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