On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:11:12AM +0400, Vasily Averin wrote: > >> return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); > >> } > > Seems reasonable. So this prevents the bad inodes from getting onto the > > orphan list in the first place? > > make_bad_inode() is called from ext3_read_inode() that is called from iget() only. Which is artefact of using the read_inode interface. Please switch from iget to iget_locked and you can handle this case without ever inserting the "bad" inode into the inode hash. - 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