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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for vfs-scale and vfs-automount
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:21:14 +0800
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Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
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To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 07:07 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:34:20PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> 
> > It does now but it doesn't do a whole lot, just checks for a negative
> > dentry, returning false, and drops out of RCU mode when the dentry isn't
> > selected or being checked for expiry yet.
> 
> Er?  Where does ->d_revalidate() exist in fs/autofs4?  Mainline doesn't
> have anything of that kind...

snip ...

> 
> OK, now I'm really confused.  Where does your tree live?

It's a working tree.

I can update my autofs4 tree on kernel.org with the changes that I think
are actually needed so far. Even then I'm still not sure that revalidate
will be needed.

Ian