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SubjectRe: [PATCH -V14 0/11] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls
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On 2010-07-06, at 11:09, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:10:02 -0400, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
>> ... I don't understand why both need to come in the same system call.
>> Is it purely an efficiency question? If so, why do you expect this to
>> be significant?
>
> Since we know that system wide file handle should include a file system
> identifier and a file identifier my plan was to retrieve both in the
> same syscall.

Won't having it be in a separate system call be racy w.r.t. doing the pathname lookup twice?

>> A filesystem uuid seems like a generally useful thing (maybe more so
>> than a filehandle), so it'd seem worth figuring out how to export that
>> separately.
>>
>
> I can add a new syscall that returns
>
> struct fs_uuid {
> u8 fs_uuid[16];
> };
>
> long sys_get_fs_uuid(int dfd, char *name, struct fs_uuid *fsid, int flag);

While this might be useful, I think the file handle should identify the filesystem itself.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Lustre Technical Lead
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.



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