Hi,
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:00:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> This _is_ what clear_inode() does in pre5 (and in pre4, for that matter):
>
> void clear_inode(struct inode *inode)
> {
> if (!list_empty(&inode->i_dirty_buffers))
> invalidate_inode_buffers(inode);
That is still buggy. We MUST NOT invalidate the inode buffers unless
i_nlink == 0, because otherwise a subsequent open() and fsync() will
have forgotten what buffers are dirty, and hence will fail to
synchronise properly with the disk.
Al, I agreed with your observation on bforget() needing the
remove_inode_queue() call. Is there anywhere else we need it?
--Stephen
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