Brad Boyer wrote:
To be honest, I think it looks bad for someone associated with redhat
to be suggesting that life should be made more difficult for those
who write proprietary software on Linux. The support from commercial
software is a major reason for the success of the RHEL product line.
Brad Boyer wrote:
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:21:36PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
Here's an updated (but untested) patch based on your suggestions. I also went
ahead and made the exported symbols GPL-only since that seems like it would be
appropriate here. Any further thoughts on it?
This
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:56:27PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
My main reasoning for doing this was that the structures involved are
per-superblock. There is virtually no reason that a filesystem would
ever need to touch these structures in another filesystem.
I don't think this is relevant to
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:52:27AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
Thanks for having a look, Randy...
s/idr_/iunique_/
Doh! Can you tell I cut and pasted this email from earlier ones? :-)
- don't attempt to remove inodes with values 100
Please explain that one. (May be obvious to some, but
Jeff Layton wrote:
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:52:27AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
Thanks for having a look, Randy...
s/idr_/iunique_/
Doh! Can you tell I cut and pasted this email from earlier ones? :-)
- don't attempt to remove inodes with values 100
Please explain that one. (May be
Thanks again, Randy. Here's an updated and tested patch and description.
This
one also makes sure that the root inode for the mount gets a unique
i_ino value
as well. Let me know what you think...
--[snip]---
This patch is a proof of concept. It works, but I'd like to get
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:42:38AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
+{
+ int rv;
+
+ rv = idr_pre_get(inode-i_sb-s_inode_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (! rv)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ lock_super(inode-i_sb);
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please, use something saner. Use of lock_super()
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 14:06 +, Al Viro wrote:
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:42:38AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
+{
+ int rv;
+
+ rv = idr_pre_get(inode-i_sb-s_inode_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (! rv)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ lock_super(inode-i_sb);
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
