Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:39:21 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 'what to expect' |
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:21:16PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote: > Can you add the following two points appended to the Generic VFS changes list? > > Thanks > Maneesh
I had considered putting such things in there a while ago, but wanted the doc to just let _users_ know what changes they should be aware of. This sort of thing really belongs in a 2.5-api-changes.txt or the likes. (Which I did ponder doing at one point, but time got the better of me).
Dave
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:04:59PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote: > [...] > > > > Generic VFS changes. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > - Since Linux 2.5.1 it is possible to atomically move a subtree to > > another place. The call is... > > mount --move olddir newdir > > - Since 2.5.43, dmask=value sets the umask applied to directories only. > > The default is the umask of the current process. > > The fmask=value sets the umask applied to regular files only. > > Again, the default is the umask of the current process. > - Since 2.5.62, dcache lookup is dcache_lock free. This does not affect > normal filesystems as long as they follow proper dcache interfaces. Care > should be taken (like holding per dentry lock) if one is racing with > d_lookup bringing a new dentry in dcache. > - Since 2.5.75-bk1 onwards separate lock is used for vfsmounts instead of > dcache_lock. > > > -- > Maneesh Soni > IBM Linux Technology Center, > IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore. > Phone: +91-80-5044999 email: maneesh@in.ibm.com > http://lse.sourceforge.net/ ---end quoted text--- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.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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