Can someone comment on the attached patch?
Basically, 2.1.131 works fine with .snapshot directories at the mount
point, but not in subdirectories. My patch removes the test
IS_ROOT(...). With the patch, subdirectories seem to work fine.
Why is the IS_ROOT(...) there at all?
--Lee Hetherington
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--- fs/nfs/inode.c.orig Fri Dec 18 13:17:42 1998
+++ fs/nfs/inode.c Fri Dec 18 13:56:44 1998
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@
* unhashed inode to avoid aliasing problems.
*/
if ((dentry->d_parent->d_inode->u.nfs_i.flags & NFS_IS_SNAPSHOT) ||
- (IS_ROOT(dentry->d_parent) && dentry->d_name.len == 9 &&
+ (dentry->d_name.len == 9 &&
memcmp(dentry->d_name.name, ".snapshot", 9) == 0)) {
struct inode *inode = get_empty_inode();
if (!inode)
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