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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang
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To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:39:22PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> This must have come up before; feel free to remind me: is there any way
> to make the interface easier to use?  (E.g. would it help if the filldir
> callback could be passed a dentry?)

The best thing for the filesystem would be to have a readdirplus
(or have it folded into readdir) instead of calling into lookup
from ->filldir.