Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>> 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 I tend to agree, chatting w/ Al I think he does too. :) I'll test a patch that kicks out ext3_link() with -ENOENT at the top, and resubmit that if things go well. -Eric - 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