On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:45:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > ->release is the proper way to detect the last close of a file, > file_count should never be used in filesystems. Has been tried, the problem with that once ->release is called it is too late to pass the the error back to close(2). Jan - 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