Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/13] sysfs: Propagate renames to the vfs on demand | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:34:35 -0800 |
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Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> writes:
> Hello, > > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> NFS does exactly the same thing I am doing. > > Oh... well, sysfs directories parenting other filesystems are pretty > rare and well defined. Although it's not very pretty, I don't think > we'll see any actual problem there. Thanks for the explanation.
To be perfectly clear, if we hit this ugly case. The internal sysfs_dirent tree is always what it should be. Only the VFS dentry cache doesn't get updated.
Eric
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