From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39594 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933189AbeFRM1N (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:27:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 07:27:09 -0500 From: Goldwyn Rodrigues To: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Do we need DCACHE_WHITEOUT_TYPE? Message-ID: <20180618122709.2dims4vjfa26drb3@merlin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, There are some DCACHE_*_TYPE which are not used. I assume they were added during the development of overlayfs/unionfs and do not seem to make sense to keep. Should we revert the following commits? 155e35d4daa8 ("VFS: Introduce inode-getting helpers for layered/unioned fs environments") e7f7d2253c05 ("VFS: Add a whiteout dentry type") df1a085af1f6 ("VFS: Add a fallthrough flag for marking virtual dentries") Are there any more commits related or during this merge which are not relevant anymore? Regards, -- Goldwyn