2009/8/21 Jens Axboe <jens.ax...@oracle.com>: > On Thu, Aug 20 2009, Yan, Zheng wrote: >> 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, are you sending this upstream?
No. Jens, please submit it. Thanks Yan, Zheng -- 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
