On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:10:25 +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:53:12AM +0800, Chen Li wrote: > > > > It's possible we try to mknod a dentry, which have > > already bound to an inode, just skip it. > > How do you think this could happen? > > Sorry, that's my bad. I noticed unionfs used to do this check in 9c5b4452998c6e670cfde0928b277e9c50d9a676, but not sure is it a must.