Re: [PATCH 2/2] fat (exportfs): reconnect file handles to evicted inodes/dentries

["Steven J. Magnani" <steve@digidescorp.com>]

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 22:43 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: 
> "Steven J. Magnani" <steve@digidescorp.com> writes:
> 
> >> We need the key, possible key is - if it is only directory, FAT may be
> >> able to use i_start as additional search key.
> >
> > Interesting idea. I think this, and reformulating the FAT NFS file
> > handle to include the parent's i_ino, will greatly simplify (and speed
> > up) the code.
> 
> Does it work even if the inode was rename()'ed?

AFAICT. I don't see why it wouldn't; on a rename, the inode's i_pos
changes but its i_ino stays the same, right?

Do you have any objection to making the use of a directory logstart
cache a mount option that defaults to off? It seems a shame to penalize
everyone - particularly embedded systems - with the overhead of such a
cache when FAT-backed-NFS seems to be such a small percentage of use
cases.

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