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Linus has released 4.7-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this release, saying “this time around we have
a fairly big change to the vfs layer that allows filesystems (if they
buy into it) to do readdir() and path component lookup in parallel
within the same directory.
That’s probably the biggest conceptual vfs change we’ve had since we
started doing cached pathname lookups using RCU.” The code name has
been changed to “Psychotic Stoned Sheep.”