On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:16:02PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > Essentially, the minimal variant of ->evict_inode(). It's > a trimmed-down clear_inode(), sans any fs callbacks. Once > it returns we know that no async writeback will be happening; > every ->evict_inode() instance should do that once and do that > before doing anything ->write_inode() could interfere with > (e.g. freeing the on-disk inode). Naming seems a bit unfortunate - this really sounds like something in page writeback. In fact I'd almost bet we had a function with that name there in the past. Care to slap an inode_ prefix on it? -- 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