Hi Al, Christoph, These two patches export d_find_any_alias() and reenable the Ceph use of the dcache for negative lookups and readdir without hitting the server. The behavior is controllable via a mount option (and now documented). Unless there are any objections to the export, I plan to send this to Linus shortly. Thanks! sage Sage Weil (2): vfs: export symbol d_find_any_alias() ceph: enable/disable dentry complete flags via mount option Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt | 16 +++++++++++----- fs/ceph/dir.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- fs/ceph/super.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ fs/ceph/super.h | 1 + fs/dcache.c | 4 ++-- include/linux/dcache.h | 1 + 6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 10 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