Re: Invalidating dentries

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> 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
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