Re: [PATCH] get rid of file_count abuse

[David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:33:52PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> A check for file_count is always a bad idea.  Linux has the ->release
> method to deal with cleanups on last close and ->flush is only for the
> very rare case where we want to perform an operation on every drop of
> a reference to a file struct.

*nod*

> This patch gets rid of vop_close and surrounding code in favour of
> simply doing the page flushing from ->release.

Added to my qa tree, and mangled to move the filestreams stuff from
xfs_close to xfs_release as well.

Thanks, Christoph.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group