Re: reiser4 plugins (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

From: Nikita Danilov
Date: Sat Aug 28 2004 - 11:42:14 EST


Jan Harkes writes:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 03:18:07PM +0400, Alexander Lyamin wrote:
> > And I honestly dont understand whats the other Christoph's worries are about.
>

[...]

> - When reiserfs3 got merged, it introduced iget3 and read_inode2 in the
> VFS layer. Later on when I started to use them for Coda I almost
> immediately found serious consistency problems, resulting in the
> iget4_locked implementation in the 2.5 kernels.
>
> I don't think anyone ever fixed that race in reiser3. It should hit

Err... it was fixed.


> Jan
>

Nikita.
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