From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: encode_fh: have inode but no dentry
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:23:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110224212317.GD22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4d12fe2-2175-4d59-9ef2-e6d5996023f0@default>
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:16:34PM -0800, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> Hi Aneesh --
>
> I see you are continuing with encode_fh related
> development so I thought I would bring this up
> with you.
>
> I have a need to call the encode_fh op in a
> situation where I have an inode but not a dentry,
> and calling d_find_alias(inode) sometimes returns
> NULL. In my usage, connectable is always zero, so
> having just the inode should be sufficient to get
> useful results from encode_fh, at least for the
> filesystems I've looked at.
[snip]
> Such a change would require a patch that touched
> nearly every filesystem so it's clearly not to
> be taken lightly.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
How about "tell us what do you need that for", for starters?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-24 21:23 UTC|newest]
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2011-02-24 21:16 encode_fh: have inode but no dentry Dan Magenheimer
2011-02-24 21:23 ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-02-24 21:51 ` Dan Magenheimer
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