linux-kernel - Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] VFS: per-sb dentry lru list

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Message-ID: <2297.1163496582@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:29:42 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>, devel@...nvz.org,
	Vasily Averin <vvs@...ru>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>,
	Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] VFS: per-sb dentry lru list 

Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de> wrote:

> It seems that anon dentries can now have children (I think someone
> explained that too me - shrink_dcache_for_umount certainly suggests
> it).

That is correct.  NFS can have multiple roots in its superblocks, and these
take the form of anon dentries with children.

David
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