On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:08:16PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Can we? My first glance at that code I asked myself if we could examine > i_writecount, instead of going to the file. My impression was that we > were deliberately only counting persistent write references from files No, there's nothing deliberate about that. The code is simply wrong; some of that crap had been fixed with mnt_want_write series, but the rest... > instead of transient write references. As only the persistent write > references matter. Transient write references can at least in theory > be flushed as the filesystem is remounting read-only. No. It's far too painful to do and no fs is doing that. You are looking for deliberate behaviour in a place where we have a half-fixed pile of races. -- 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
