Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:26:30 -0600 | Subject | Re: [RFC] iput() cleanup (was Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink) |
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On Jun 02, 2002 21:27 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > This is a first cut at cleaning up "iput()" and getting rid of some of the > magic VFS-level behaviour of the i_nlink field which many filesystems do > not actually want - as shown by the number of "force_delete" users out > there. > > It does not change any real behaviour, but it splits up the "iput()" > behaviour into several functions ("common_delete_inode()", > "common_forget_inode()" and "common_drop_inode()"), and adds a place for a > low-level filesystem to hook into the behaviour at inode drop time, > through the "drop_inode" superblock operation.
If I had one minor note it would be to rename "common_*()" to "generic_*()" to match the other VFS helper routines.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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