>>>>> " " == Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

     > On 30 May 2001, Trond Myklebust wrote:

    >> Al: Is there any reason why the cases
    >>
    >> if (!inode->i_nlink)
    >>
    >> and the 'magic nfs path' should be treated differently? 
    >> Personally, I'd rather prefer to merge the 2.

     > I don't think that it's a good idea. Why not fry the cache
     > explicitly when you invalidate the inode?

Won't there be a race there? Imagine if some other process is busy
writing to that inode, and happens to add a new page after we've
truncated...

Cheers,
   Trond
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