Al, Christoph, Zach just ran into this bug as well. Does this fix look reasonable? thanks- sage ---- From Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> d_move() is strangely implemented in that it swaps the position of new_dentry and old_dentry in the namespace. This is admittedly weird (see comments for d_move_locked()), but normally harmless: even though new_dentry swaps places with old_dentry, it is unhashed, and won't be seen by a subsequent lookup. However, vfs_rename_dir() doesn't p...

I assume just to leave the dentry in the same stat we originally found it This would work as well, yeah. I've no real preference, here... thanks- --