linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 6/7] ext4: Enable negative dentries on case-insensitive lookup

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:39:51 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, jaegeuk@...nel.org, ebiggers@...nel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, kernel@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] ext4: Enable negative dentries on case-insensitive
 lookup

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 03:46:02PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> Instead of invalidating negative dentries during case-insensitive
> lookups, mark them as such and let them be added to the dcache.
> d_ci_revalidate is able to properly filter them out if necessary based
> on the dentry casefold flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>