Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754064Ab0F0SWp (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:22:45 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:55433 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752728Ab0F0SWn (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:22:43 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:22:29 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" Cc: Mingming Cao , Steve French , DENIEL Philippe , David Howells , Jeff Layton , Jeff Layton , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, Suresh Jayaraman Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/10] cifs: define inode-level cache object and register them Message-ID: <20100627182229.GA492@infradead.org> References: <20100625125306.7f9b1966@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <4C24A606.5040001@suse.de> <1277220214-3597-1-git-send-email-sjayaraman@suse.de> <9822.1277312573@redhat.com> <22697.1277470549@redhat.com> <18628.1277502398@redhat.com> <20100625182651.36800d06@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <871vbscpce.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871vbscpce.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 687 Lines: 14 On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:47:21PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote: > NFS ganesha pNFS also had a requirement for getting i_generation and > inode number in userspace. So may be we should now look at updating > stat or add a variant syscall that include i_generation and create time > in the return value What's missing in knfsd that you feel the sudden urge to move backwards to a userspace nfsd (one with a horribly crappy codebase, too). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/