Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:48:41 +0900 | From | Tsuchiya Yoshihiro <> | Subject | Re: filesystem bug? |
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Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>OK, I'll try your script with a 2.4.21 or 2.4.23 kernel to see if we can >reproduce this here. In the mean time, could you possibly try a 2.4.24 >kernel, just in case the clear_inode race has something to do with this? > > > Stephen, I started running the test on ext2 and ext3 on 2.4.24-pre2.
BTW, what exactly is the clear_inode and read_inode race that you mentioned?
I am not familar with the locking model in Linux kernel. I found kernel_lock is held before ext3_rename/unlink/rmdir, so I think it's ok. But I do not understand how it is done in the path walk.
Thanks, Yoshi
-- Yoshihiro Tsuchiya
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