Re: [PATCH take 2][RFC] fat: Save FAT root directory timestamps tovolume label

From: Jörg Schummer
Date: Mon Jul 27 2009 - 10:56:23 EST


Hello again,

just in case you (or perhaps somebody else) have a minute to assist me..

On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 13:47 +0200, ext OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:

> BTW, the patch has several bugs. fat_get_label_entry() doesn't check
> IS_FREE(), is it right?

Not 100% sure if it's needed in a consistent fs, but I guess it
shouldn't do any harm, so I added it.

> fat_create_label_entry() doesn't initialize all
> timestamp in the case of msdos.

Corrected.

> spin_lock() usage is wrong.

>From the code, I'm not totally sure then what inode_hash_lock is
supposed to protect in fat_write_inode. Probably it should prevent that
the dir entry of an inode is being moved around to another i_pos while
it's being changed?

But in the pre-patch version of fat_write_inode, shouldn't then
mark_buffer_dirty(bh) be called when the lock is still held?

Sorry for the newbie-questions, thanks for any help.

JÃrg


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