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From: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	rdreier@cisco.com, kirkland@canonical.com,
	tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com, raven@themaw.net
Subject: Re: [patch 4/9] vfs: add lockdep annotation to s_vfs_rename_key for ecryptfs
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:47:43 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912011636200.5806@cobra.newdream.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091201161345.bd3dd2b1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Quite a VFS patch backlog here, some held over from 2.6.32:
> 
> vfs-fix-vfs_rename_dir-for-fs_rename_does_d_move-filesystems.patch

This problem will bite ceph without this patch.  I could work around it, 
but it would be nice to fix the real bug.  Al was worried about nfs:

> It's _probably_ OK now, but I'd really like to think about NFS 
> behaviour.  There are subtle traps in that area.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121666695629006&w=2

> vfs-make-real_lookup-do-dentry-revalidation-with-i_mutex-held.patch
> vfs-clean-up-real_lookup.patch

These were waiting on the autofs4 locking changes and legacy autofs 
removal, which Ian has posted and appear to be ready.

sage


  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-02  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-17 22:56 [patch 4/9] vfs: add lockdep annotation to s_vfs_rename_key for ecryptfs akpm
2009-12-02  0:09 ` Erez Zadok
2009-12-02  0:13   ` Andrew Morton
2009-12-02  0:47     ` Sage Weil [this message]
2009-12-02  1:40       ` Ian Kent
2009-12-02  9:32       ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-12-21 19:44         ` Sage Weil

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