On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:59:39AM +0000, Al Viro (viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > 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. > > Why would a filesystem give a damn about the chroot of syscall originator > in the first place? That's the point - it is not needed. > > > Why not use the dentries you've been given by VFS? > > > > At writeback we do not have parents, so must find a path somehow. > > Most of the places do have those just fine and unlike the writeback, > rename et.al. really care which pathname is being dealt with... POHMELFS uses writeback cache also for metadata, so effectively most of such operations are also postponed. Later I turned that off though. > BTW, what prevents writeback vs. rename races? There are proper locks for such operations. -- 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
