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Change the AFS dynamic root to do things differently:
(1) Rather than having the creation of cell records create inodes and
dentries for cell mountpoints, create them on demand during lookup.
This simplifies cell management and locking as we no longer have to
create these objects in advance *and* on speculative lookup by the
user for a cell that isn't precreated.
(2) Rather than using the libfs dentry-based readdir (the dentries now no
longer exist until accessed from (1)), have readdir generate the
contents by reading the list of cells. The @cell symlinks get pushed
in positions 2 and 3 if rootcell has been configured.
(3) Make the @cell symlink dentries persist for the life of the superblock
or until reclaimed, but make cell mountpoints disappear immediately if
unused.
It's not perfect as someone doing an "ls -l /afs" may create a whole
bunch of dentries which will be garbage collected immediately. But
any dentry that gets automounted will be pinned by the mount, so it
shouldn't be too bad.
(4) Allocate the inode numbers for the cell mountpoints from an IDR to
prevent duplicates appearing in the event it cycles round. The number
allocated from the IDR is doubled to provide two inode numbers - one
for the normal cell name (RO) and one for the dotted cell name (RW).
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-8-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-4-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4