Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:43:52 +0300 | From | Oleg Drokin <> | Subject | Re: [2.4] VFS locking problem during concurrent link/unlink |
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Hello!
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:39:41AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > > Debugging reiserfs problem that can be demonstrated with script created by > > Zygo Blaxell, I started to wonder if the problem presented is indeed reiserfs > > fault and not VFS. > > Though the Zygo claims script only produces problems on reiserfs, I am trying > > it now myself on ext2 (which will take some time). > > > > Debugging shows that reiserfs_link is sometimes called for inodes whose > > i_nlink is zero (and all corresponding data is deleted already). > > So my current guess of what's going on is this: > No, this is a reiserfs bug, since we schedule after doing link checks in > reiserfs_link and reiserfs_unlink. I sent a patch to reiserfs dev a > while ago, I'll pull it out of the suse kernel and rediff against > 2.4.20.
Yes we do. But on the other hand I've put a check at the beginning of reiserfs_link and I am still seeing these links on inodes with i_nlink == 0.
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