On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 18:11 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:57:32AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> >
> > When a filesystem decrements i_nlink to zero, it means that a
> > write must be performed in order to drop the inode from the
> > filesystem.
> >
> > We're shortly going to have keep filesystems from being remounted
> > r/o between the time that this i_nlink decrement and that write
> > occurs.
> >
> > So, add a little helper function to do the decrements. We'll
> > tie into it in a bit to note when i_nlink hits zero.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> Note that we all (and especially Andrew :)) need to be carefull not to
> introduce unguarded i_nlink decrements again. Dave, you'll probably need
> to do another audit when you introduce the real functionality.
Yup, I have my eyes on it. git and mm commits should help as well.
-- Dave
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