From: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eazgwmir@umail.furryterror.org,
viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [2.4] VFS locking problem during concurrent link/unlink
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:06:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15910.55436.680525.450310@laputa.namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1042732927.31100.2205.camel@tiny.suse.com>
Chris Mason writes:
> On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 10:43, Oleg Drokin wrote:
[...]
>
> link count at 1
> reiserfs_link: make new directory entry for link, schedule()
> reiserfs_unlink: dec link count to zero, remove file stat data
> reiserfs_link: inc link count, return thinking the stat data is still
> there
What protects ext2 from doing the same on the SMP?
>
> All of which leads to expanding chaos as we process this link pointing
> to nowhere but still have a valid in ram inode pointing to it.
>
> -chris
Nikita.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-16 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-16 11:00 Oleg Drokin
2003-01-16 15:39 ` Chris Mason
2003-01-16 15:43 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-01-16 16:02 ` Chris Mason
2003-01-16 16:06 ` Nikita Danilov [this message]
2003-01-16 16:22 ` Chris Mason
2003-01-16 17:03 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-01-16 17:20 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-01-16 16:07 ` Oleg Drokin
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