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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:34:35 -0800 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...et.ca>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] sysfs: Propagate renames to the vfs on demand Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> writes: > Hello, > > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> NFS does exactly the same thing I am doing. > > Oh... well, sysfs directories parenting other filesystems are pretty > rare and well defined. Although it's not very pretty, I don't think > we'll see any actual problem there. Thanks for the explanation. To be perfectly clear, if we hit this ugly case. The internal sysfs_dirent tree is always what it should be. Only the VFS dentry cache doesn't get updated. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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