linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

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Date:	Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:19:38 -0800
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tony Jones <tonyj@...e.de>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	walt <wa1ter@...ealbox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

On Thursday 15 February 2007 04:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> What's the point in changing pipefs... you can *never*
> reach it *anyway*, even if it was a /-style path, since
> pipefs is a NOMNT filesystem.

The point is that we could then get rid of the special case for MS_NOUSER 
filesystems like pipefs in __d_path(). (This special case caused the lazy 
unmounted dir bug in the first place.) It is likely not really worth it, 
though.

Andreas
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