Re: [PATCH 3/6 linux-next] fs/affs: make affs exportable

Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-13T19:19:50Z

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:39:12PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> If we're going to reject patches that don't implement get_parent (and I
> think we should), then we should replace "optional but strongly
> recommended" there by just "mandatory". Any objections?

In theory yes - we'll just need an exception (or dummy implementation)
for in-memory file systems like tmpfs.