Al, here are some patches that are indenpendant from but necessary for the union mount patch set. Valerie and I think they are ok to go in separately from the rest of the patches. Thanks, Jan Jan Blunck (6): VFS: BUG() if somebody tries to rehash an already hashed dentry VFS: propagate mnt_flags into do_loopback VFS: Make lookup_hash() return a struct path VFS: Remove unnecessary micro-optimization in cached_lookup() VFS: Make real_lookup() return a struct path VFS: Introduce dput() variant that maintains a kill-list fs/dcache.c | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- fs/namei.c | 209 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- fs/namespace.c | 7 +- 3 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-) -- 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