Miklos Szeredi wrote:
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> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Zach Brown wrote:
>> Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>>> I think rehashing the new dentry is bogus, even on error.
>> So we'd just come back through lookup to repopulate the existing
>> destination name that vfs_rename_dir() unhashed before calling
>> ->rename() in the case that the rename fails?  That seems gross, but
>> relatively harmless.
> 
> We are talking about an _extremely_ rare event.

Agreed, which is why I called it relatively harmless.

- z
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