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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 20:20:26 +0000 From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4 v3] fs: Remove i_devices from struct inode 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... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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