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> The attached patch moves the code in iget around, and makes iput lock the
> inode until it's done with it. No more need to worry about blocking
> operations in put_inode - and it's transparent to the filesystems. Yeah
> it's a big lock, but it's one inode... And this way clear_inode doesn't
> have a chance of blowing up in people's faces.
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Tried your patch. I'm getting tons of "VFS: clear_inode called on unlocked
inode." messages.
Nathan Bryant
nathan@nbryan71.dorm.usm.maine.edu
nbryan71@mail.caps.maine.edu