On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:48:26PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> If the igrab() were not done, it would be possible for clear_inode to be
> called on the 'parent' inode whilst at the same time one or more attr
> inodes (belonging to this 'parent') are in use and Bad Things(TM) would
> happen...

What bad thing specificly?  If there's shared information we should
probably refcount them separately.

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