[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS client crashes on RHEL 5.10 and RHEL 6.5

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:18:58AM -0500, Andrew Deason wrote:
> 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.

Doh.  I'll queue up a patch to fix that, I can't see for exporting
d_splice_alias and d_materialise_unique differently.

--b.