And I thought I broke something with my latest changes in Coda. This
'bugfix' is hitting us hard. In some cases we hand down quite volatile
objects, files that are involved in a conflict, fake expanded directory
trees during the repair/examination of such conflicts.
These object are passed down with a 'no-cache' flag, which uses
dentry_revalidate to skip the cached lookup from the dcache but forces
all lookups to be passed through to the Coda filesystem. This bugfix
causes breakage, instead of forcing a new filesystem lookup, the VFS
simply returns ESTALE.
AFAIK, before the fix, failing dentry revalidate meant 'the lookup path
in the dcache is probably invalid, please double check with the
filesystem'. And now it means, 'the lookup path is invalid, return failure'.
Jan
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