Re: Q: NFSD readdir in linux-2.6.28

[hooanon05]

David Woodhouse:
> Yes, well spotted. It didn't matter when the buffered readdir() was
> purely internal to XFS, because it didn't matter there that we called
> ->lookup() without i_mutex set. But now we're exposing arbitrary file
> systems to it, we need to make sure we follow the locking rules. 
> 
> I _think_ it's sufficient to make the affected callers of
> lookup_one_len() lock the parent's i_mutex for themselves before calling
> it. I'll take a closer look...

If you remember why you discarded the FS_NO_LOOKUP_IN_READDIR flag
approach, please let me know. URL or something is enough.

Thanx
J. R. Okajima
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