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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-03 1:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ 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 3/4] NFS: Fix nfs_path() to always return a '/' at the beginning of the path Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <cover.1238525532.git.Trond.Myklebust-HgOvQuBEEgTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-11 19:50 ` [PATCH 1/4] VFS: Add a VFS helper function vfs_remote_path_lookup() Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <3f1264127d431f695be25b940b477e3d287edc68.1238525532.git.Trond.Myklebust-HgOvQuBEEgTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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
2009-04-01 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
[not found] ` <1238547065.28445.178.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-01 1:04 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <1238539079.28445.103.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-31 22:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-04-01 2:15 ` Al Viro
2009-04-01 13:06 ` Trond Myklebust
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[not found] ` <20090401202629.GG28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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[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 ` [PATCH 4/4] NFS: Correct the NFS mount path when following a referral Trond Myklebust
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