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FromNikita Danilov <>
DateThu, 16 Jan 2003 19:06:36 +0300
SubjectRe: [2.4] VFS locking problem during concurrent link/unlink
Chris Mason writes:
 > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 10:43, Oleg Drokin wrote:

[...]

 > 
 > link count at 1
 > reiserfs_link: make new directory entry for link, schedule()
 > reiserfs_unlink: dec link count to zero, remove file stat data
 > reiserfs_link: inc link count, return thinking the stat data is still
 > there

What protects ext2 from doing the same on the SMP?

 > 
 > All of which leads to expanding chaos as we process this link pointing
 > to nowhere but still have a valid in ram inode pointing to it.
 > 
 > -chris

Nikita.

 > 
 > 
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