On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 01:45:15PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > To mountpoint or to fs root? And what's going on with d_find_alias()? > > To root if it happend to be under mountpoint. HUH? How the hell can root of filesystem be under the mountpoint of that filesystem? What are you talking about? > > AFAICS, you are doing that for regular files as well as directories, > > and you do support link(2) in there, so dentry (and path) obtained from > > that will be random. > > Not exactly random, but can change. > Links support is rather subtle because of that, yes. > > Plan was to add external attribute or increase inode size to include > parent name, but when I coded that it was so messy in respect of > renames, that was dropped. Why not use the dentries you've been given by VFS? -- 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
