From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Curiosities of Linux NFSD file handles
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:35:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081204193511.GE7575@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19603.1228409217@redhat.com>
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 04:46:57PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
>
> 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.
Somebody else who understands what you're asking about off the top of
their heads may be able to pop up and answer this. But I'm a little
confused. Which encode/decode routines exactly, and where do you see
them making assumptions about the size of the data?
--b.
> 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-04 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 16:46 Curiosities of Linux NFSD file handles David Howells
2008-12-04 19:35 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2008-12-04 22:28 ` NeilBrown
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2008-12-05 9:07 ` David Howells
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