Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756744Ab2HPNuW (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:50:22 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:55019 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754042Ab2HPNuV (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:50:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:50:19 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov , "J. Bruce Fields" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , Alexey Dobriyan , Andrew Morton , James Bottomley , Matthew Helsley Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper Message-ID: <20120816135019.GS23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20120815092116.700948346@openvz.org> <20120815092409.591460800@openvz.org> <20120815204546.GC25062@fieldses.org> <20120815210237.GF25421@moon> <20120815220622.GA28054@fieldses.org> <20120816062448.GA32081@moon> <20120816123814.GD1209@moon> <20120816134339.GQ23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <502CF9DA.8030701@parallels.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <502CF9DA.8030701@parallels.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1042 Lines: 21 On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:47:06PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > On 08/16/2012 05:43 PM, Al Viro wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:38:14PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > > >> Hi Bruce, thinking a bit more I guess using general encode_fh is not that > >> convenient since it operates with dentries while our fdinfo output deals > >> with inodes. Thus I should either provide some new encode_fh variant > >> which would deal with inodes directly without "parents". Which doesn't > >> look for me anyhow better than the new export_encode_inode_fh helper. > > > > Huh? You do have dentries, for crying out loud... > > Sometimes we don't -- the inotify thing gets an inode only. > Unlike other notifies that have dentries at hands... What's wrong with saying "we don't support idiotify"? -- 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/