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Subject: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:12:13 GMT
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--- Comment #181 from Anonymous Emailer 2009-11-08 18:12:03 ---
Reply-To: hch@infradead.org
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 10:07:15PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
wrote:
> That said, I haven't looked at how nasty it would be to change the name
> lookup to use . Maybe it wouldn't be as horrible as I suspect it
> is (the filesystems themselves wouldn't need changing, since the lowlevel
> filesystem name lookup routines always sees a 'struct dentry' rather than
> the pathname).
FYI there are other filesystems that historically store the the name
without terminating NULL in the symlink and would benefit from that.
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