Re: [fuse-devel] Changes in 4.7.

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2016-05-31 9:17 GMT+02:00 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Stef Bon <stefbon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>

>
> The problem would be if the fuse filesystem assumed serialized
> lookup/readdir and they don't do any locking themselves.
>

Yes of course.

> We probably need to conditionally re-add the lookup/readdir
> serialization to the fuse kernel module, with an INIT flag to
> explicitly enable parallel readdir and lookup (i.e. disable the
> serialization).

Yes, via a init flag, where serialization will be the default to
provide backwards compatibility.
You say "re-add". Has this been in the kernel module before?

Stef
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