Re: [patch 3/7] fs, notify: Add file handle entry into inotify_inode_mark

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 08:26:22AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:03:47PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 07:45:49AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > We can try going this route, what do you think?
> > > 
> > > I still don't understand why you need a dentry to get the filehandle.
> > > The current api may ask for one, but it shouldn't really be necessary
> > > (assuming you don't want parent directory information encoded in the
> > > filehandle, which I hope you don't).
> > 
> > As far as I know we don't need parent encoded. So Bruce, you think
> > to modify exportfs instead to work with inode directly?
> 
> Looks like the filesystem encode_fh method just takes inodes (with the
> parent inode allowed to be NULL), so all you'd need would be a version
> of exportfs_encode_fh that took an inode.
> 
> (Worst case, if that didn't work, you could fake up a dentry with
> something like d_obtain_alias, but better not to if it's not necessary.)

Yeah, I'll update the series, test it and show ther results. Thanks!

	Cyrill