From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261449AbVF0Tq5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:46:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261401AbVF0Tqm (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:46:42 -0400 Received: from agminet03.oracle.com ([141.146.126.230]:8231 "EHLO agminet03.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261449AbVF0Tpi (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:45:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:44:02 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status Message-ID: <20050627194402.GK31165@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050620235458.5b437274.akpm@osdl.org> <20050627090640.GA5410@infradead.org> <1119882343.4256.358.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> <20050627192651.GB21932@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050627192651.GB21932@infradead.org> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:26:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > drop_inode is not going to die, we need it to support filesystems that > want to call generic_delete_inode even for a non-null i_nlink. What's > hopefully going to die is the last instance of it that isn't either > generic_drop_inode or generic_delete_inode. OCFS2 uses drop_inode as well, as it must handle last-close when another node did the unlink. It fixes up i_nlink in that case, then calls generic_drop_inode(). If there's a more elegant solution, we're all ears. Joel -- "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127