linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] dentry

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Message-ID: <20110531173348.GL11521@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 31 May 2011 18:33:48 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [git pull] dentry_unhash() breakage

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 09:26:52AM -0700, Sage Weil wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 06:56:01AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > > A couple of dentry_unhash fallout fixes
> > 
> > Shouldn't we do the shrink_dcache_parent only after a successfull
> > rmdir or rename?
> 
> Yeah, that makes more sense to me...

No, it doesn't.  Let's keep changes to minimum.  I *really* don't want
to audit autofs and hell knows how many other places for more or less
subtle breakage caused by that.  It's bad enough as it is...
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