On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 23:03 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > This is a patch to enhance ESTALE error handling during the > > > lookup process. The error, ESTALE, can occur when out of data > > > dentries, stored in the dcache, is used to translate a pathname > > > component to a dentry. When this occurs, the dentry which > > > contains the pointer to the inode which refers to the non-existent > > > file is dropped from the dcache and then the lookup process > > > started again. Care is taken to ensure that forward process is > > > always being made. If forward process is not detected, then the > > > lookup process is terminated and the error, ENOENT, is returned > > > to the caller. > > > > This collides in non-trivial ways with the always-coming-never-arrives > > r-o-bind-mounts patches. > > > > I have an old version of those patches in -mm and I believe that Al > > is/was/has set up some git tree with these patches and perhaps other stuff. Al's tree is here: http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git;a=summary It's probably best to try and base your patches on top of there. -- Dave -- 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
