Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: Remove hfsplus_file_lookup

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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:49:29PM +0300, Vyacheslav Dubeyko wrote:

> This feature worked earlier under Linux. So, I suppose that some changes in HFS+ driver
> or in VFS broke it. And it needs to investigate and fix the reported issue. Thank you for the
> report.

This "feature" is severely broken and yes, outright removal is what I'd
suggest for a fix.  HFS+ allows hardlinks to files, which means that
you allow multiple dentries for the same inode with ->lookup() in it,
which is asking for deadlocks.

This is fundamentally not supported.  Considering that forks are lousy
idea in the first place, I'd seriously suggest to remove that idiocy for
good.
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