On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:46:59AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19 2009, Nick Piggin wrote: > > See my other reply. It *can* work with key aliases, but this particular > > code does not. > > > > It is pretty easy obviously to put in duplicates because the rbtree > > code doesn't know about keys, but if we do this then it looks like > > it might cause the search code to miss some valid inodes and instead > > return freeing inodes -- so you'd also have to look at that and update > > it which is why I didn't go down this route.. > > Mine was just a generic statement, I didn't read the btrfs code (hence > my comment about potential lookup bug, if you allow aliases you have to > be careful).
Ah ok. Well yeah in this case btrfs is definitely wrong in the way it tried to insert aliases. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
