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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix bug in ext3 htree rename: doesn't delete old name, leaves ino with bad nlink
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:47:40PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> HUH?
>
> ->rename() holds ->i_sem on both directories. So do all other directory
> methods. What the hell is going on there?

What's going on is that had a brain-fart, and forgot about inode
semaphore that's held by the VFS layer. Chris, sorry about that;
there is no need retry multiple times. We only need to retry once, in
the case where the node gets split.

- Ted

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