On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:00:11AM +0000, Al Viro (viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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? Let me guess... Mmmm, it was in the yesterday newspaper, I remember. Maybe when we chroot somewhere. I meant not mounted fs root, but thread's root. > > > 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? At writeback we do not have parents, so must find a path somehow. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- 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
