Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:50:19 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper |
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:47:06PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > On 08/16/2012 05:43 PM, Al Viro wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:38:14PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > > >> Hi Bruce, thinking a bit more I guess using general encode_fh is not that > >> convenient since it operates with dentries while our fdinfo output deals > >> with inodes. Thus I should either provide some new encode_fh variant > >> which would deal with inodes directly without "parents". Which doesn't > >> look for me anyhow better than the new export_encode_inode_fh helper. > > > > Huh? You do have dentries, for crying out loud... > > Sometimes we don't -- the inotify thing gets an inode only. > Unlike other notifies that have dentries at hands...
What's wrong with saying "we don't support idiotify"?
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