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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:54:13 -0700
From: "Joshua Hudson" <joshudson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Filesystem & mutex
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My filesystem has need of an extra mutex in the extended inode data area.
>>From what I understand, the mutex can be initalized in inode_init_once, but
I cannot determine how to free it.

It looks wrong to destroy the mutex by just destroying the slab.
It is wrong to destroy the inode in destroy_inode. Badness when
an inode is reused.

I really don't want to go back to semaphores. The mutex code just *looks* so
much cleaner.