diff -urN tux-vfs-ref/fs/dcache.c tux-vfs/fs/dcache.c
--- tux-vfs-ref/fs/dcache.c	Tue Jan 22 02:15:14 2002
+++ tux-vfs/fs/dcache.c	Tue Jan 22 02:15:40 2002
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@
 		dentry->d_op->d_release(dentry);
 	if (dname_external(dentry)) 
 		kfree(dentry->d_name.name);
+	if (dentry->d_extra_attributes) {
+		kfree(dentry->d_extra_attributes);
+		dentry->d_extra_attributes = NULL;
+	}
 	kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry); 
 	dentry_stat.nr_dentry--;
 }
@@ -617,6 +621,7 @@
 	dentry->d_name.hash = name->hash;
 	dentry->d_op = NULL;
 	dentry->d_fsdata = NULL;
+	dentry->d_extra_attributes = NULL;
 	dentry->d_mounted = 0;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_hash);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_lru);
@@ -912,6 +917,16 @@
 	/* Unhash the target: dput() will then get rid of it */
 	list_del_init(&target->d_hash);
 
+	/* flush any possible attribute */
+	if (dentry->d_extra_attributes) {
+		kfree(dentry->d_extra_attributes);
+		dentry->d_extra_attributes = NULL;
+	}
+	if (target->d_extra_attributes) {
+		kfree(target->d_extra_attributes);
+		target->d_extra_attributes = NULL;
+	}
+
 	list_del(&dentry->d_child);
 	list_del(&target->d_child);
 
@@ -1163,6 +1178,26 @@
 	}
 out:
 	return ino;
+}
+
+void flush_dentry_attributes (void)
+{
+	struct list_head *chain, *tmp;
+	struct dentry *dentry;
+	int i;
+
+	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
+	for (i = 0; i <= d_hash_mask; i++) {
+		chain = dentry_hashtable + i;
+		tmp = chain->next;
+		while (tmp != chain) {
+			dentry = list_entry(tmp, struct dentry, d_hash);
+			kfree(dentry->d_extra_attributes);
+			dentry->d_extra_attributes = NULL;
+			tmp = tmp->next;
+		}
+	}
+	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
 }
 
 static void __init dcache_init(unsigned long mempages)
diff -urN tux-vfs-ref/include/linux/dcache.h tux-vfs/include/linux/dcache.h
--- tux-vfs-ref/include/linux/dcache.h	Thu Nov 22 20:46:18 2001
+++ tux-vfs/include/linux/dcache.h	Tue Jan 22 02:16:02 2002
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
 	struct super_block * d_sb;	/* The root of the dentry tree */
 	unsigned long d_vfs_flags;
 	void * d_fsdata;		/* fs-specific data */
+	void * d_extra_attributes;	/* TUX-specific data */
 	unsigned char d_iname[DNAME_INLINE_LEN]; /* small names */
 };
 
@@ -167,6 +168,7 @@
 extern void shrink_dcache_sb(struct super_block *);
 extern void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry *);
 extern int d_invalidate(struct dentry *);
+extern void flush_dentry_attributes(void);
 
 #define shrink_dcache() prune_dcache(0)
 struct zone_struct;
diff -urN tux-vfs-ref/kernel/ksyms.c tux-vfs/kernel/ksyms.c
--- tux-vfs-ref/kernel/ksyms.c	Tue Jan 22 02:15:17 2002
+++ tux-vfs/kernel/ksyms.c	Tue Jan 22 02:15:40 2002
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(prune_dcache);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrink_dcache_sb);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrink_dcache_parent);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_dentry_attributes);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_inode_number);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(is_subdir);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_unused_fd);