Hi, On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 20:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > But I still don't understand why this can't happen > > thro original code .. > > what am i missing ? > > presumably there are never any dirty pages or inodes when we run > journal_destroy(). I assume so, yes. If there is no a_ops->writepages(), then we default to generic_writepages() which is a noop if there are no dirty pages. If your new ext3-specific writepages code tries to do a journal_start() in that case, then yes, it is likely to blow up spectacularly during journal_destroy! --Stephen - 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
