On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:57:41 +0400 "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's a bit odd that reiserfs is playing with file contents within > > file_operations.release(): there could be other files open against that > > inode. One would expect this sort of thing to be happening in an > > inode_operation. But it's been like that for a long time. > > > > reiserfs needs to "pack" file tail when last process which opened a file > closes it. > Can you see more suitable place where that could be performed? No, you're right - I got my ->release() and ->flush() mixed up. Possibly one could perform this operation on the final iput(), but I suspect the locking situation there would be even more complex. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
