Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:44:42 -0500 | From | "Theodore Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix bug in ext3 htree rename: doesn't delete old name, leaves ino with bad nlink |
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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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