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From: Dave Hansen
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Re: [PATCH 01/11] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts.
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 9:32 am
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 13:12 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
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> > - The data in sysfs fundamentally changes behind the back of the > VFS and we need to keep the VFS in sync. Essentially this is the > distributed filesystem problem. > > - In particular for sysfs_rename and sysfs_move_dir we need to support > finding > the dcache entries and calling d_move. So that the dcache does not > get into an inconsistent state. Timeouts and invalidates like NFS > uses are to be avoided if at all possible.
Much clearer now, thanks! Can we get this description into the changelog, pretty please? -- Dave --
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[PATCH 01/11] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts.
, Benjamin Thery
, (Wed Jun 18, 10:07 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/11] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts.
, Dave Hansen
, (Wed Jun 18, 10:44 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/11] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts.
, Eric W. Biederman
, (Wed Jun 18, 1:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH 01/11] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts.
, Benjamin Thery
, (Thu Jun 19, 1:54 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/11] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts.
, Dave Hansen
, (Thu Jun 19, 9:32 am)
Re: [PATCH 01/11] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts.
, Benjamin Thery
, (Thu Jun 19, 1:19 pm)
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