Re: Inodes surviving unmounts in 2.1.47?

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Sun, 27 Jul 1997 14:44:12 -0400

Martin von Loewis wrote:
>
> When converting NTFS to 2.1.47, I found a strange problem:
> - file system mounts, works and unmounts just fine
> - the driver is unloaded and reloaded, file system is remounted
> - upon access, the driver crashes because a field in an inode
> is null. The only place where this field is cleared is inside
> put_inode. So for some reason, the VFS is passing me an inode wich
> was already released.

Hi Martin,

If you want to send me your current patches for NTFS, I'd be glad to
look things over. I'm pretty familiar with the new inode code.

Regards,
Bill