>> how can I invalidate all buffered/cached dentries so that ls -l /somefolder >> will definitely go read the harddisk? > >Patch the kernel?
Great idea. >A quick way of doing it would be to add a new mount option to the >filesystem and call shrink_dcache_sb() from there. do `mount -o >remount,shrink_dcache'. I doubt that there is a way to define an option applicable to all fs? But thanks for the idea. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
