From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maarten Lankhorst Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "__d_unalias() should refuse to move mountpoints" Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:59:04 +0200 Message-ID: <50619C88.8000204@canonical.com> References: <50609C43.1070702@canonical.com> <87txumrct6.fsf@xmission.com> <50615268.1040805@canonical.com> <8db34325-e8e4-4e24-85dd-c8951769e2b6@email.android.com> <506173A6.2050705@canonical.com> <87ipb2pemt.fsf@xmission.com> <50618F96.1020204@canonical.com> <87sja6nxvt.fsf@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: al viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87sja6nxvt.fsf@xmission.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Op 25-09-12 13:29, Eric W. Biederman schreef: > Maarten Lankhorst writes: > >>> Could you try the following patch? This should report what directories >>> cannot be renamed because one of them is a mount point and it gives some >>> real insight into what is going on. >> ls / >> __d_unalias: /dev -> /dev >> __d_unalias: /proc -> /proc >> __d_unalias: /sys -> /sys > Ok. That is what I thought was going on. For some reason nfs is > attempting to recreate an existing dentry. > > Does this fix the nfs problem for you? > > Eric > The patch seems to fix it, thanks! ~Maarten