Re: [PATCH 0/4 v3] fs: Remove i_devices from struct inode

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 12:14:26PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> Yeah, this idea clearly doesn't work.  But I wonder whether the
> revised variant (which may be just moving cd_forget and bd_forget from
> evict to iput_final) would work.

How the hell is it better?  Neither of those will happen as long as dentry
is retained.  And with /dev on tmpfs (which is bloody common) _that_ won't
happen until device node is unlinked...
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