On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Jan Harkes wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 06:20:44AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > 2) It will return inodes that are I_FREEING or I_CLEAR. I will have to
> > test for these in NTFS and then iput() to wash my hands clean of such
> > garbage. And if I am not mistaken, the iput() actually will BUG().
>
> If that is the case iget is broken. Perhaps it should test for these
> states in find_inode (and find_inode_fast) and never return them. Are
> those types of inodes still on the inode hash?
That is of course the big question. As I said I haven't looked at this
very closely...
> > 4) If anything, as Christoph Hellwig suggested to me on #kernel,
> > iget{,5}_locked() should be reimplemented in terms of my ilookup()
> > implementation and not vice versa. (-:
>
> Well, considering that this function (modulo the I_FREEING|I_CLEAR test
> is identical to the first 10 lines in iget5_locked, this could call that
> function. Ofcourse iget_locked is using the 'fast' version of find_inode.
Yes, indeed, and yes. I recall that Al wanted the _fast() versions to
remain separate. This can be done easily enough here, too. For example
ilookup() and ilookup5() (to remain consistent with iget5() or if you
have a better idea for a name...).
Best regards,
Anton
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