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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.28?] don't unlink an active swapfile
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:37:22AM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Peter Cordes is sorry that he rm'ed his swapfiles while they were in use,
> > he then had no pathname to swapoff. It's a curious little oversight, but
> > not one worth a lot of hackery. Kudos to Willy Tarreau for turning this
> > around from a discussion of synthetic pathnames to how to prevent unlink.
> > Mimic immutable: prohibit unlinking an active swapfile in may_delete()
> > (and don't worry my little head over the tiny race window).
>
> Looks good (but I think I already said this before)

Thanks. Indeed you did. I wondered whether to add an Acked-by in
your name, but I think different people have understandably different
positions on the etiquette of translating "Looks good" into "Acked-by";
so not knowing your position, I just Cc'ed you again.

Hugh


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