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DateTue, 8 Apr 2008 03:58:07 -0400
FromChristoph Hellwig <>
SubjectRe: [NFS] Increase size of struct fid raw buffer
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:50:05AM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> I'm happy with that solution, although I'd assumed that the reason this
> field had a size in the first place was that the NFS people had a plan
> to use the structure as an allocation entity in the future. Can an NFS
> developer please confirm/deny this?
> 
> If everybody is happy with the plan, then I'll send a patch to make the
> change as you suggest shortly,

I've introduce it and I don't plan to use it as allocation entity.  I
don't quite remember why I sized it either, so it's conceptually fine
to make it a VLA.  Just do some testing with that variant please.


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