Namjae Jeon <[email protected]> writes: >> OK, I think I got where is wrong. If it is the subdir of rootdir, >> fat_dget() should get the inode of root? > That is correct. Whenever fat_dget() is called for sub-directories > which is in root folder, we assign root inode as parent inode. >> >> So, I guess if parent_logstart == 0, it is BUG(). > Would you explain more why you think it is BUG() ?
Because root dentry is never expired until umount. So, fat_dget() shouldn't never fail to get inode for subdir of rootdir. Otherwise, "stale_rw" will not be working in the case even if there is cache. I.e. I think we don't need to check parent_logstart == 0. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
