Quoting Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 13:12 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> - 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? Yes sure. I'll add it to the patch introduction. Benjamin > > -- Dave > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers