Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:52:44 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] some more fixes for inode.c |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 08:06 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > but I'm not 100% sure we need that change, since > > maybe only completely unused inodes can end up here. David ? > > No, I don't see any reason why that should be the case; you can get > iput() called for an inode which happens to have data in the page cache. > This part of the patch is needed.
OK, thanks for confirming my suspicions.
Marcelo, could you please apply the patch ?
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