From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Curiosities of Linux NFSD file handles Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:46:57 +0000 Message-ID: <19603.1228409217@redhat.com> Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" , Neil Brown Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:52480 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752444AbYLDQrE (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:47:04 -0500 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I've been poking around in the exportfs code, and I see that the handle decode routines seem to expect that they may be given more data for a handle than the encode_fh() routine produced. Is this still true? Or can I assume that the amount of data now given to the decoder will exactly reflect the amount of data obtained from the encoder? David