Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 13:35:33 EST


On Fri, 4 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:

> However, doing an ioctl(2) on the block device won't help. So the
> question is, where to add the hook? One possibility is the FS, and
> record inum,bnum pairs. But of course we don't have a way of accessing
> via inum in user-space. So that's no good. Besides, we want to get
> block numbers on the block device, because that's the only meaningful
> number to resort.
>
> So, what, then? Some kind of hook on the page cache? Ideas?

Two of them: use less bloated shell (and link it statically) and clean
your rc scripts.

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