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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/11] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts.
Quoting Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:

> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 13:12 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> - The data in sysfs fundamentally changes behind the back of the
>> VFS and we need to keep the VFS in sync. Essentially this is the
>> distributed filesystem problem.
>>
>> - In particular for sysfs_rename and sysfs_move_dir we need to support
>> finding
>> the dcache entries and calling d_move. So that the dcache does not
>> get into an inconsistent state. Timeouts and invalidates like NFS
>> uses are to be avoided if at all possible.
>
> Much clearer now, thanks!
>
> Can we get this description into the changelog, pretty please?

Yes sure.
I'll add it to the patch introduction.

Benjamin

>
> -- Dave
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