Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for vfs-scale and vfs-automount

From: Ian Kent
Date: Thu Feb 24 2011 - 05:21:27 EST


On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 07:07 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:34:20PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
>
> > It does now but it doesn't do a whole lot, just checks for a negative
> > dentry, returning false, and drops out of RCU mode when the dentry isn't
> > selected or being checked for expiry yet.
>
> Er? Where does ->d_revalidate() exist in fs/autofs4? Mainline doesn't
> have anything of that kind...

snip ...

>
> OK, now I'm really confused. Where does your tree live?

It's a working tree.

I can update my autofs4 tree on kernel.org with the changes that I think
are actually needed so far. Even then I'm still not sure that revalidate
will be needed.

Ian


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