Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:39:01 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. |
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:15:57PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > maybe not but I need to check some more bit to be sure.
yes we probably don't need it for fs against fs in 2.4 because we make the new metadata block visible to a reader (splice) only after they're all uptodate and all directory operations are serialized by the vfs (with the i_zombie).
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