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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] XFS: Return case-insensitive match for dentry cache
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:52:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080422045222.GA11321@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.t9zug2dn3jf8g2@pc-bnaujok.melbourne.sgi.com>

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:54:28PM +1000, Barry Naujok wrote:
> There's already a "flags" field in xfs_da_args and only the low 16 bits
> are currently used for attr operations.
>
> We could use 5 of the high bits for these flags, or just add another
> flags field (which are used for things other than lookup).

Either way is fine for me.  The problem with the flags field is
that the values in there seem to be passed down from higher up, e.g.
the attr code so we'd have to be careful not to use any value twice.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-22  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-21  8:31 [PATCH 0/4] XFS: case-insensitive lookup and Unicode support Barry Naujok
2008-04-21  8:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] XFS: Name operation vector for hash and compare Barry Naujok
2008-04-21  8:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-21  8:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] XFS: Return case-insensitive match for dentry cache Barry Naujok
2008-04-21  8:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-21  9:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-22  3:54       ` Barry Naujok
2008-04-22  4:52         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-04-21 21:13     ` David Chinner
2008-04-22  4:53       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-22  2:07     ` Barry Naujok
2008-04-22  4:55       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-21  8:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] XFS: ASCII case-insensitive support Barry Naujok
2008-04-21  9:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-21  8:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] XFS: Unicode case-insensitive lookup implementation Barry Naujok
2008-04-21  9:15   ` Christoph Hellwig

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