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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Reinstate NFS exportability for JFFS2.
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 16:48:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080501204820.GA5951@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209670979.25560.587.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:42:59PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On top of commit 27c72b040c0be8f3704ed0b6b84c12cbba24a7e8 (in the
> mtd-2.6 tree if Linus hasn't pulled it yet), this provides
> export_operations for JFFS2. 
> 
> It doesn't yet solve the readdirplus deadlock described in
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2007-March/017663.html 
> 
> You also still need to set fsid manually when exporting it -- I'm
> thinking of adding a 'get_fsid' to the export_operations to allow the
> filesystem to provide its own...

Yes, and get_fsid would be extremly useful, especially for those
filesystems that already have an uuid in the superblock
(*cough*, XFS, *cough*), but it'll need some co-operations with
nfs-utils on when to use it.

Patch looks good for me except for the few introduced overlong lines.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-01 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-01 19:42 [RFC] Reinstate NFS exportability for JFFS2 David Woodhouse
2008-05-01 20:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-05-01 22:44   ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-02  1:38     ` Neil Brown
2008-05-02 11:37       ` David Woodhouse
2008-05-02 14:08         ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-31 21:54       ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01  0:16         ` Neil Brown
2008-08-01  0:40           ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01  0:52             ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01  0:53             ` Chuck Lever
2008-08-01  1:00               ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01  1:31                 ` Chuck Lever
2008-08-01  8:13                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01 13:35                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01 13:56                     ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01 16:05                       ` Chuck Lever
2008-08-01 16:19                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01 17:47                           ` Chuck Lever
2008-08-02 18:26                             ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-02 20:42                               ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-02 21:33                                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-03  8:39                                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-03 11:56                               ` Neil Brown
2008-08-03 17:15                                 ` Chuck Lever
2008-08-04  1:03                                   ` Neil Brown
2008-08-04  6:19                                     ` Chuck Lever
2008-08-05  8:51                                       ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-05  8:59                                         ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-05  9:47                                           ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-05 23:06                                         ` Neil Brown
2008-08-06  0:08                                           ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-06 19:56                                             ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-06 20:10                                               ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-09 16:47                                                 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-09 19:55                                                   ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-09 20:01                                                     ` [PATCH 1/4] Factor out nfsd_do_readdir() into its own function David Woodhouse
2008-08-09 20:07                                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-09 20:02                                                     ` [PATCH 2/4] Copy XFS readdir hack into nfsd code David Woodhouse
2008-08-09 20:08                                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-09 20:03                                                     ` [PATCH 3/4] Remove XFS buffered readdir hack David Woodhouse
2008-08-09 20:09                                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-09 20:03                                                     ` [PATCH 4/4] Reinstate NFS exportability David Woodhouse
2008-08-09 20:10                                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-04 18:41                                     ` [RFC] Reinstate NFS exportability for JFFS2 J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 22:37                                       ` Neil Brown
2008-08-17 18:22                                     ` Andreas Dilger
2008-08-01  2:14             ` Neil Brown
2008-08-01  8:50               ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01 10:03               ` Al Viro
2008-08-01 23:11                 ` Neil Brown
2008-07-31 21:54       ` [PATCH 1/4] Factor out nfsd_do_readdir() into its own function David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 21:54       ` [PATCH 2/4] Copy XFS readdir hack into nfsd code, introduce FS_NO_LOOKUP_IN_READDIR flag David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 21:55       ` [PATCH 3/4] Switch XFS to using FS_NO_LOOKUP_IN_READDIR, remove local readdir hack David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 21:55       ` [PATCH 4/4] [JFFS2] Reinstate NFS exportability David Woodhouse

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