Hello,
for a network filesystem one should try to avoid all remote operations,
if possible. So when I just want to unlink a file, it does not make too
much sense to first send a lookup and once the dentry is fully
established to unlink the file.
I think the simplest way to solve that is just to add a another
nameidata flag (LOOKUP_UNLINK) and the file system may then just ignore
the lookup request and fill in fake values.
Or are there any other suggestions to avoid a rather useless
network-lookup + network+unlink, so so combine it into one step?
Thanks,
Bernd
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