From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] VFS: Add a VFS helper function vfs_remote_path_lookup()
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 02:53:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090403015312.GT28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090403015220.GS28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:52:20AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> OK, that's actually doable.
> See git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git/ cache-root
> for current variant; it's for comments *only* - not for merge. After that
> one we should be able to do a modified variant of e.g. vfs_path_lookup()
> that would do
> get_path(root);
path_get(root), even
> nd->root = root;
> instead of
> nd->root.mnt = NULL;
> and have lookup with root set to given place without touching current->fs
> at all. Warning: this is completely untested. Not even "does it boot?",
> just a code dump.
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-03 1:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-31 18:52 [PATCH 0/4] Allow NFS to use ordinary path lookup when mounting NFSv4 Trond Myklebust
2009-03-11 19:50 ` [PATCH 1/4] VFS: Add a VFS helper function vfs_remote_path_lookup() Trond Myklebust
2009-03-11 19:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-03-31 21:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-31 21:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-31 22:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-03-31 22:43 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903311540120.6474-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-31 23:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-03-31 23:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-03-31 23:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-01 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903311715110.4130-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-01 0:51 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-01 0:51 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-01 0:51 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <1238547065.28445.178.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-01 1:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-01 1:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-01 1:04 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <1238539079.28445.103.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-31 22:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-03-31 22:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-03-31 22:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-01 2:15 ` Al Viro
2009-04-01 2:15 ` Al Viro
2009-04-01 13:06 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <1238616394.24360.2.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
[not found] ` <20090401202629.GG28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
[not found] ` <1238628133.24360.51.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
[not found] ` <20090401233252.GH28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
[not found] ` <1238629407.19782.5.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
[not found] ` <20090402191709.GJ28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
[not found] ` <1238700874.16087.42.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
2009-04-02 19:52 ` Al Viro
2009-04-02 19:57 ` Al Viro
2009-04-02 20:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-02 20:28 ` Al Viro
2009-04-02 20:45 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-02 20:54 ` Al Viro
2009-04-02 20:56 ` Al Viro
2009-04-02 21:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-02 22:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-02 23:18 ` Al Viro
2009-04-03 1:09 ` Al Viro
2009-04-03 1:52 ` Al Viro
2009-04-03 1:53 ` Al Viro [this message]
2009-04-03 19:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-05 2:25 ` Al Viro
2009-03-11 19:50 ` [PATCH 2/4] NFSv4: Use vfs_path_lookup() instead of nfs4_path_walk() Trond Myklebust
2009-03-11 19:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-03-11 19:50 ` [PATCH 3/4] NFS: Fix nfs_path() to always return a '/' at the beginning of the path Trond Myklebust
2009-03-11 19:50 ` [PATCH 4/4] NFS: Correct the NFS mount path when following a referral Trond Myklebust
2009-03-11 19:50 ` Trond Myklebust
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20090403015312.GT28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk \
--to=viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk \
--cc=Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com \
--cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.