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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:47:06 +0400
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Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
	Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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On 08/16/2012 05:43 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:38:14PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bruce, thinking a bit more I guess using general encode_fh is not that
>> convenient since it operates with dentries while our fdinfo output deals
>> with inodes. Thus I should either provide some new encode_fh variant
>> which would deal with inodes directly without "parents". Which doesn't
>> look for me anyhow better than the new export_encode_inode_fh helper.
> 
> Huh?  You do have dentries, for crying out loud...

Sometimes we don't -- the inotify thing gets an inode only.
Unlike other notifies that have dentries at hands...

> .
> 

Thanks,
Pavel