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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:04:43 +1100 (EST)
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Subject: Re: tmpfs, NFS, file handles
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On  February 21, davidchow@shaolinmicro.com wrote:
> 
> What I suggest is nfsd should export a symbol called
> generic_fh_to_dentry() such that it will be more generic like
> generic_file_read() to handle gneeric calls for every fs.

But every filesystem is really very different in this reguard.

What would you think this "generic_fh_to_dentry" should do?

We actually already have one.  You set ->fh_to_dentry to NULL, and the
it used "iget". 

NeilBrown
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