Re: [Patch] ext3_journal_stop inode access

[Andreas Dilger <adilger clusterfs com>]

On Mar 20, 2003  18:43 +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> It makes ext3_journal_stop take an sb, not an inode, as its final
> parameter.

I've always wondered why ext3_journal_{start,stop} took an inode as
a parameter instead of the superblock.  In some cases (although
nowhere currently in the ext3 code) it is desirable to get a journal
handle without necessarily having an inode related to that operation.

Nowhere in the ext3_journal_{start,stop} do we use the inode for
anything other than getting the superblock.

Cheers, Andreas
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