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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:45:32PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So we'd see very quickly if these tentative dentries were to escape 
> outside of __d_lookup().

Ahem...  You'll see them (at least) in dcache pruning codepaths.  And
those will dereference inodes...