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?

-- Dave

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