Hi all: I have a question about freeing a free block, in ext3_free_branches(ext3/inode.c). When ext3 want to free the top of a subtree, it first forget it, then extend the handle to make sure clearing the address of the top to be atomic in the journal with the updating of the bitmap block which owns it. If extend_transaction() fails, freeing the top will be another transaction, then the blocks pointed by this top are probably re-released by ext3_orphan_cleanup(). But when freeing a free block happens, a ext3_error() will be called and ext3_handle_error() will mark a error on super block. Isn't it too strict? Thanks to anyone who give help. Mingyang Guo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
