On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:08:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:01 AM Al Viro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What I don't understand is why would anyone want to mess with > > name snapshots for dentry_path() lookalikes... > > Talking about dentry_path()... Shouldn't the ceph path walking code > also check the mount_lock sequence to make sure the path is actually > stable? > > Maybe it doesn't matter.
They want it relative to fs root - after all, server doesn't know or care what's mounted where on client...
