On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:20:51PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Andrew, > > This patch fixes a problem when a inode which is the root of a mount > becomes bad (make_bad_inode()). In this case follow_link will return > -EIO, so the name resolution fails, and umount won't work. The > solution is just to remove the follow_link method from bad_inode_ops. > Any filesystem operation (other than unmount) will still fail, since > every other method returns -EIO.
I'm not all that sure that we want to follow symlinks in the last pathname component upon umount, actually... - 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/
