linux-kernel - Re: NTFS

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Date:	Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:22:43 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ntfs-dev <linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: NTFS

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:25:50AM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Hi Linus, please pull from
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6.git
> 
> This NTFS update fixes the deadlock reported by Sergey Vlasov in
> ntfs_put_inode().
> 
> The fix was to remove ntfs_put_inode() which should make Christoph
> Hellwig (CC:-ed) very happy as he wanted to get rid of ->put_inode
> altogether a while ago and NTFS stopped him from doing so and now the
> way should be clear for it to happen...  (-:

Cool.  That means ->put_inode is gone in -mm.  Andrew, what are the
plans for sending the patches to make the ext2 preallocation work
like ext3 to Linus?  
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