Sorry, I'm a bit busy currently so I can't really heep up with the heated discussion here. But having a problem in cifs and the discussion here should be a good enough reason to make the hook take a dentry for now, maybe with a little comment that it's only because the xattr helpers need it. We can still sort this out later without blocking your project. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html