Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -V16 02/12] vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:38:50 +0200 |
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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote: > That would include another stat call on the file to get the st_dev ? As > per the last review (Message-id:20100708082143.3701bfc7@notabene.brown) > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1007385 we discussed that > it would be nice to add st_dev as a part of handle. Later I suggested > it would be nice to get mount_id instead of st_dev because st_dev is > not stable (against remounts) for file system that doesn't have a > backing device. So instead of using something that is partially stable, > add mnt_id which is explicitly stated to be unstable across remounts. > > If you are against having mount_id as a part of struct file_handle, do > you think we could add it as a extra argument to syscall ?
Yeah, I think that would be cleaner.
Thanks, Miklos
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