On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> If this is the case, then all of the other zero initializations can be
> removed as well.  I figured that if most of the fields needed to be
> zeroed, then ones _not_ being zeroed would lead to this problem.

        Other zero initializations in inode->u certainly can be
removed, but whether it's worth doing or not depends is a matter of
taste (recall the flamefest around Tigran's crusade against global
zero initializers several months ago ;-)
        The rule is that inode->u is zeroed before fs gets to see
the inode, be it in ->read_inode() or after get_empty_inode().
The rest is private business of that fs. That's what ->u is about,
after all...
                                                Cheers,
                                                        Al

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