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From: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Can't unmount bad inode
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:45:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050119214519.GG26051@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CrNFz-0001JF-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:20:51PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> This patch fixes a problem when a inode which is the root of a mount
> becomes bad (make_bad_inode()).  In this case follow_link will return
> -EIO, so the name resolution fails, and umount won't work.  The
> solution is just to remove the follow_link method from bad_inode_ops.
> Any filesystem operation (other than unmount) will still fail, since
> every other method returns -EIO.

I'm not all that sure that we want to follow symlinks in the last
pathname component upon umount, actually...

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-19 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-19 21:20 Miklos Szeredi
2005-01-19 21:45 ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-01-19 21:58   ` Miklos Szeredi

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