linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] monitor zeroing of i

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Message-ID: <20060809171405.GF7324@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 9 Aug 2006 18:14:05 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] monitor zeroing of i_nlink

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:57:34AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> Some filesystems, instead of simply decrementing i_nlink, simply zero
> it during an unlink operation.  We need to catch these in addition
> to the decrement operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>


btw, what about adding some nice kerneldoc for all the *_nlink helpers
you added?

> ---
> 
>  kernel/fork.c                |    0 

something is screwed up in your diffstats :)

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