[OpenAFS-devel] directory inodes with multiple dentries

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Chaskiel M Grundman wrote:

> Various comments and documentation in/about the linux kernel state that 
> inodes that belong to directories cannot have multiple dentry objects (called 
> 'aliases' in this case) associated with them. AFS can violate this 
> restriction in a couple of cases:

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> I have a patch for this that seems to work, but I'd like some of the other 
> linux-aware people on the list to look it over and let me know if my use of 
> d_find_alias is appropriate here or if I should be doing something else. 
> Suggestions for what conditional I should be using would be welcome.
>
> <http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cg2v/openafs-patches/osi_vn_alias.diff>
>
> It has been requested that I try to make sure that the (one and only) dentry 
> never has the @sys name in it. The only way we came up to do this is to 
> extend the afs_lookup() interface to return the translated name if @sys 
> processing was done. Does this seem appropriate?

Does anyone else care to comment on this?