Re: [PATCH 01/11] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts.

[Benjamin Thery]

Quoting Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 13:12 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > - The data in sysfs fundamentally changes behind the back of the
> >   VFS and we need to keep the VFS in sync.  Essentially this is the
> >   distributed filesystem problem.
> >
> > - In particular for sysfs_rename and sysfs_move_dir we need to support
> > finding
> >   the dcache entries and calling d_move.  So that the dcache does not
> >   get into an inconsistent state.  Timeouts and invalidates like NFS
> >   uses are to be  avoided if at all possible.
>
> Much clearer now, thanks!
>
> Can we get this description into the changelog, pretty please?

Yes sure.
I'll add it to the patch introduction.

Benjamin

> -- Dave



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