Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:06:36 +0300 | Subject | Re: [2.4] VFS locking problem during concurrent link/unlink |
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Chris Mason writes: > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 10:43, Oleg Drokin wrote:
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> > 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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