Re: cramfs and named-pipe

From: Atsushi Nemoto
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 23:09:50 EST


On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:03:47 +0100, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Eeek... I'd rather not play these games with directories and devices nodes
> as well. Rationale for the original patch simply doesn't apply for those.
>
> IOW, I think it would be much saner if we did the following: make ..._test()
> refuse to merge inodes with ->i_ino == 1, take inode setup back to
> get_cramfs_inode() and make ->drop_inode() evict ones with ->i_ino == 1
> immediately. Comments?
>
> Patch below is completely untested; it builds, but that's it.

Thanks, your patch works well for me. But it looks a bit large for
stable tree (100 line rule).

With current code, I think no problem on empty directories and device
nodes. So how about fixing only FIFO case first (and send it to
stable tree) and then go to your patch?

---
Atsushi Nemoto
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/