Re: [PATCH] Fix bug in ext3 htree rename: doesn't delete old name, leaves ino with bad nlink

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:47:40PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> HUH?
> 
> ->rename() holds ->i_sem on both directories.  So do all other directory
> methods.  What the hell is going on there?

What's going on is that had a brain-fart, and forgot about inode
semaphore that's held by the VFS layer.  Chris, sorry about that;
there is no need retry multiple times.  We only need to retry once, in
the case where the node gets split.

						- Ted