On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 02:20:35PM -0700, Simon Kirby wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 08:16:13AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > The symptoms sound similar to > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=134738157303017&w=2 > > > > Might be worth checking whether it's that patch? > > Indeed! I tried this hack: > > diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c > index 8086636..649a112 100644 > --- a/fs/dcache.c > +++ b/fs/dcache.c > @@ -2404,6 +2404,10 @@ out_unalias: > if (likely(!d_mountpoint(alias))) { > __d_move(alias, dentry); > ret = alias; > + } else { > + printk(KERN_WARNING "VFS: __d_move()ing a d_mountpoint(), uh oh\n"); > + __d_move(alias, dentry); > + ret = alias; > } > out_err: > spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); > > With this applied, "ls -l flick" prints: > > [ 77.217420] VFS: __d_move()ing a d_mountpoint(), uh oh > [ 77.222390] VFS: __d_move()ing a d_mountpoint(), uh oh > > ...and "pics" and "raid" then work as they did before, or with "nordirplus" > set. So, is something broken with nordirplus or the NFS layer, or should > __d_unalias() really move a mountpoint? With nordirplus, it works without > complaining about moving a mountpoint. By the way, This seems fixed in 3.6-rc6, likely due to c3f52af3e03013db5237e339c817beaae5ec9e3a. Thanks! Simon- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html