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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting index c8f036a9b13f..520a4becb75c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting @@ -72,24 +72,11 @@ c/ Helper routines to allocate anonymous dentries, and to help attach DCACHE_DISCONNECTED) dentry is allocated and attached. In the case of a directory, care is taken that only one dentry can ever be attached. - d_splice_alias(inode, dentry) or d_materialise_unique(dentry, inode) - will introduce a new dentry into the tree; either the passed-in - dentry or a preexisting alias for the given inode (such as an - anonymous one created by d_obtain_alias), if appropriate. The two - functions differ in their handling of directories with preexisting - aliases: - d_splice_alias will use any existing IS_ROOT dentry, but it will - return -EIO rather than try to move a dentry with a different - parent. This is appropriate for local filesystems, which - should never see such an alias unless the filesystem is - corrupted somehow (for example, if two on-disk directory - entries refer to the same directory.) - d_materialise_unique will attempt to move any dentry. This is - appropriate for distributed filesystems, where finding a - directory other than where we last cached it may be a normal - consequence of concurrent operations on other hosts. - Both functions return NULL when the passed-in dentry is used, - following the calling convention of ->lookup. + d_splice_alias(inode, dentry) will introduce a new dentry into the tree; + either the passed-in dentry or a preexisting alias for the given inode + (such as an anonymous one created by d_obtain_alias), if appropriate. + It returns NULL when the passed-in dentry is used, following the calling + convention of ->lookup. Filesystem Issues |