2009/8/20 Nick Piggin <npig...@suse.de>:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:59:07AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 19 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> I looked at the actual problem now and I agree, it cannot work that way.
>> I don't know if Linus is planning another -rc, we should probably get
>> this upstream sooner rather than later. Chris is away this week, so if
>> we can get Yan to agree on this patch as well, I'll submit it.
> I think the first patch I submitted was agreed?
>

Of course, thank you.

Yan, Zheng
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