Re: [PATCH] [RFC] remove ext3 inode from orphan list when link and unlink race

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Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Eric Sandeen (ES) writes:
>  ES> I tend to agree, chatting w/ Al I think he does too.  :)  I'll test
>  ES> a patch that kicks out ext3_link() with -ENOENT at the top, and resubmit
>  ES> that if things go well.
> 
> shouldn't VFS do that?

Al says "no" and I'm not arguing.  :)

Apparently this may be OK with some filesystems, and Al says he doesn't
want to know about i_nlink in the vfs in any case.

But I suppose there may be other filesystems which DO care, and should
be checking if they're not.

-Eric
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