Re: [PATCH 06/20] sysfs: Use dentry_ops instead of directly playingwith the dcache

[Tejun Heo]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Ummm... what happens if sysfs recreates those identical nodes again
>> while the old dentries are lingering?  The dead ones will linger till
>> the submounts are gone and then look ups after that will show the new
>> ones, right?
> 
> Yep.  On the vfs level.  The sysfs dirent tree will reflect what is
> going on with the hardware.
> 
> This is a vfs misfeature, that I hope someday we will get fixed.
> But for now it is better not to leak mount points.  Especially
> since no one actually mounts things on sysfs.

fuse and debugfs do.  :-P

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

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