This seris stops using the ".nilfs" file and makes it eliminable. The first patch introduces posix semaphore for inter process locking of nilfs-utils processes, and the second patch issues ioctl via root directory instead of using .nilfs file. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html