On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 04:35:03PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Allow filesystem to initialize dentry (->d_fsdata to be explicit) at > allocation time. Something similar had been discussed a while ago (I don't remember whether you'd been on Cc, though). E.g. ceph and lustre would benefit from having such method (proposed name was ->d_init(), seeing that it's not always just an allocation). The subtle part is barriers and I would really like to see a proof that you don't need any. -- 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