[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
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