Re: Should open_by_inode have a special dentry ops?

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

> 
> 
> Shouldn't open_by_inode have a dentry_operations table like the one found in 
xfs_iops.c?
> I think it should. This may be the source of the reference leak that was noti
ced
> after using xfxdump.
> 
> If it does, doesn't that indicate that their may be problems exporting a xfs 
file system
> in linux.   NFS also creates its own dentries from inodes gained by iget?
> 
> 
> Bill Jones


You may have a point here, if we do not go into the vnode layer when dropping 
the
reference count it will fail to call the xfs inactive code.

Steve