[Ocfs2-devel] ext2 attributes for OCFS2

[Daniel Phillips]

Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:44:00PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>>>Yeah, it should mostly work just fine, but I'm betting there are some
>>>paths which will need a manual re-check as things may have changed out
>>>from under the VFS while we weren't holding a cluster lock. It should
>>>be easy enough to check things like the immutable flag in those places
>>>though.
>>
>>might be, I already wondered why things like
>>mark_inode_dirty() do not work with ocfs2,
>>IMHO the vfs/ocfs2 synchronization is broken
>>(to some degree) but maybe that is intentional
> 
> Yeah, it's difficult to get the VFS to "cluster lock" without affecting the
> runtime of other file systems, so we have to work within that constraint :/

Please don't be shy about asking.  Can you describe the mark_inode_dirty
issue?

Regards,

Daniel