Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:30:09 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 12/16] fix race between writeback and unlink |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On 3 Jun 2002, Chris Mason wrote: > > > > Or am I missing something? > > No. I think that in the long run we really would want all of the writeback > preallocation should happen in the "struct file", not in "struct inode". > And they should be released at file close ("release()"), not at iput() > time.
That would be a lot nicer.
But why does ext2_put_inode() even exist? We're already throwing away the prealloc window in ext2_release_file? I guess for shared mappings over spares files: if all file handles have closed off, we still need to make allocations against that inode, yes?
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