Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:03:47 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
        Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
        James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
        Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com>,
        aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 3/7] fs, notify: Add file handle entry into
 inotify_inode_mark
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 07:45:49AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > 
> > We can try going this route, what do you think?
> 
> I still don't understand why you need a dentry to get the filehandle.
> The current api may ask for one, but it shouldn't really be necessary
> (assuming you don't want parent directory information encoded in the
> filehandle, which I hope you don't).

As far as I know we don't need parent encoded. So Bruce, you think
to modify exportfs instead to work with inode directly?

	Cyrill
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