On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:57:41 +0400 "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It's a bit odd that reiserfs is playing with file contents within
> > file_operations.release(): there could be other files open against that
> > inode. One would expect this sort of thing to be happening in an
> > inode_operation. But it's been like that for a long time.
> >
>
> reiserfs needs to "pack" file tail when last process which opened a file closes it.
> Can you see more suitable place where that could be performed?
No, you're right - I got my ->release() and ->flush() mixed up.
Possibly one could perform this operation on the final iput(), but I suspect the
locking situation there would be even more complex.
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