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>
> On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> >
> > What happens? The "cd /mnt/dir/file" needs the dcache
> > entry of dir, but the revalidate fails because dir was
> > timestamped with the version of /mnt, but that changed
> > when mv ../file . was done. So, the old entry for dir
> > is dropped and a new lookup is done.
>
> Hmm.. The old dentry for dir should not just be dropped, it should be
> released. Now why doesn't that happen? That sounds like the source of the
It has children. d_count is greater than 1 and d_invalidate()
doesn't try to shrink_dcache_parent().
Al
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