[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS client crashes on RHEL 5.10 and RHEL
6.5
Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:18:58 -0500
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:33:37 -0500
Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> [Moving from openafs-info to openafs-devel.]
>
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:45:47 -0400
> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > - d_materialise_unique: which was originally designed which
> > distributed filesystems in mind, which have the special issue
> > that the directory tree can be modified by other nodes without
> > their knowledge, so they need to be ble to deal with lookup
> > encountering an inode which was previously known under some
> > other name.
>
> I'm not clear on if this really helps, as I'm not completely sure what
> the effects of this are,
d_materialise_unique is also EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, so regardless of all of
this, it is completely unusable to us anyway.
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Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net