first, thanks for your help ;)

now, i still haver some problems:

Leave association between dentries and inodes alone; VFS will call
d_move() afterwards and it will do the right thing.

im not messing with dentry<->inode associations .
anyway, i tried to read the d_move() code, but some explanations will be 
appreciated. 

All you need to do in ->rename() is
	a) modify on-disk structures

im doing this.

	b) update ->i_nlink for inodes that need it.

which inodes need it? wont the vfs update ->i_nlink for them?
if i need to update ->i_nlink, should i also iput/iget them?? or will the 
vfs do this also?? (im asking, because i didnt see this kind of code 
anywhere in the vfs code. )


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