You run into inconsistency problems with vfat aliases. You could
be accessing a path two ways:
this/is/a long directory path/file
or
this/is/alongd~1/file
The problem is that a move of "a long directory path" to some other name
didn't remove the dcache entry for "alongd~1". Any time one of a file's
parents gets renamed, it needs to be revalidated. I might be overly
cautious and at some point I should probably think through this whole
thing again. When I was deep into the problem, it seemed to be the
right thing to do. Now, my thinking is more fuzzy.
- Gordon
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