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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:10:43 +0100
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] __bd_forget should wait for inodes using the mapping
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:54:28PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> __bd_forget will change the mapping for filesystem inodes without 
> waiting to make sure no users of the block device address space are 
> using that mapping.

Filesystem block device inodes have no business even looking at their
->i_mapping.  Where do you need to do that?