Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: ext2 warning in Linux 2.2.7 | Date | Wed, 5 May 1999 15:05:06 +0100 (BST) |
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> and only for regular lookups. Maybe we should give up on using inumber > here (we are using pair of inumbers anyway) and leave the decision re what > is proper fhandle to filesystem drivers. That would mean adding > dentry_to_fh and fh_to_dentry methods and dropping the corresponding code > from knfsd. If filesystem doesn't implement them - though luck, stale > dentry => stale fhandle. We can't do any better for ISOFS and friends > anyway.
That would be reasonable. The file handle has to survive reboots. That is the hard bit. A lot of FS's can arrange that - ISOfs included, but the logic does belong in the fs itself.
Alan
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