>>>>> Eric Sandeen (ES) writes: ES> so I think it's possible that link can sneak in there & find it after ES> the mutex is dropped...? Is this ok? :) It's certainly -happening- ES> anyway.... yes, but it shouldn't allow to re-link such inode back, IMHO. a filesystem may start some non-revertable activity in its unlink method. thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html