On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:48:26PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > If the igrab() were not done, it would be possible for clear_inode to be > called on the 'parent' inode whilst at the same time one or more attr > inodes (belonging to this 'parent') are in use and Bad Things(TM) would > happen...
What bad thing specificly? If there's shared information we should probably refcount them separately. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html