Re: 2.5 'what to expect'

From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect'
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:21:16 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030714065116.GB1214@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de>

Hi Dave,

Can you add the following two points appended to the Generic VFS changes list?

Thanks
Maneesh

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:04:59PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
[...]
> 
> Generic VFS changes.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> - Since Linux 2.5.1 it is possible to atomically move a subtree to
>   another place. The call is...
>    mount --move olddir newdir
> - Since 2.5.43, dmask=value sets the umask applied to directories only.
>   The default is the umask of the current process.
>   The fmask=value sets the umask applied to regular files only.
>   Again, the default is the umask of the current process.
  - Since 2.5.62, dcache lookup is dcache_lock free. This does not affect
    normal filesystems as long as they follow proper dcache interfaces. Care
    should be taken (like holding per dentry lock) if one is racing with 
    d_lookup bringing a new dentry in dcache.
  - Since 2.5.75-bk1 onwards separate lock is used for vfsmounts instead of
    dcache_lock.

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Maneesh Soni
IBM Linux Technology Center, 
IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore.
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