On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 09:48:06PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > If anybody has better ideas, I'll gladly take those instead - this > > approach feels kludgy ;-/ > > It looks kludgy indeed, but I do like the concept of basically > rate-limiting delayed_fput_work. > > At the same time, I worry that it will cause the same kinds of things > that we discussed for user processes: delayed fput can result in > visible semantic differences (eg silly-renames) if it is delayed past > other operations that care about elevated reference counts. > > Now I hope that people don't nfs-(re)export nfs filesystems, so the > nfs silly-rename isn't necessarily an issue, but I could imagine other > similar things. NFS isn't exportable and there aren't any plans to change that. --b. -- 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
