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From: Steve French <smfrench@austin.rr.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cleaning up negative dentries when	remote	directory is changed
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:29:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <438676F7.2090005@austin.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1132885081.8985.36.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Nope. The d_revalidate() dentry operation is the right place to do this.
> There is nothing in the VFS that special-cases revalidation of negative
> dentries, so d_revalidate() will indeed be called whenever a cached
> entry is looked up.
>
> AFAICS, the reason why CIFS fails to do this is that you have not
> initialised dentry->d_op on the negative dentry. IOW: CIFS negative
> dentries currently don't have a d_revalidate()...
>
> Cheers,
>   Trond
>
>
>   

Argh ... It looks you are probably right, I am trying adding the dentry 
ops to negative dentries.  I like it when there are obvious reasons for 
strange behavior.

Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-25  2:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-25  1:33 [RFC PATCH] cleaning up negative dentries when remote directory is changed Steve French
2005-11-25  1:55 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-25  2:06   ` Steve French
2005-11-25  2:18     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-25  2:29       ` Steve French [this message]

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