Re: [PATCH 12/13] sysfs: Propagate renames to the vfs on demand

[Eric W. Biederman]

Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> NFS does exactly the same thing I am doing.
>
> Oh... well, sysfs directories parenting other filesystems are pretty
> rare and well defined.  Although it's not very pretty, I don't think
> we'll see any actual problem there.  Thanks for the explanation.

To be perfectly clear, if we hit this ugly case.  The internal
sysfs_dirent tree is always what it should be.  Only the VFS dentry
cache doesn't get updated.

Eric
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