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The 3.8 kernel is out

The 3.8 kernel is out

Posted Feb 19, 2013 17:15 UTC (Tue) by dkg (subscriber, #55359)
In reply to: The 3.8 kernel is out by ssam
Parent article: The 3.8 kernel is out

but now you have two copies of the data. which one is authoritative? what would you do when accessing a file that had different bytes in the inlined stub than in the first block? At which points would you check the two copies for consistency?


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The 3.8 kernel is out

Posted Feb 19, 2013 18:26 UTC (Tue) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

> which one is authoritative?

the one on the inode. for economy, the other one could even not be guaranteed to exist.

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