On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 08:57:30AM -0700, Boqun Feng wrote: > You're not wrong, my suggestion here had the assumption that write part > of ->i_state is atomic (I hadn't look into that). Now a quick look tells > it isn't, for example in fs/f2fs/namei.c, there is: > > inode->i_state |= I_LINKABLE; But it doesn't matter what f2fs does to _its_ inodes. tarfs will never see an f2fs inode. I don't know what the rules are around inode->i_state; I'm only an expert on the page cache, not the rest of the VFS. So what are the rules around modifying i_state for the VFS?
