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From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To:     Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Support more filesystems with FAN_REPORT_FID
Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:08:11 +0200
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 21:07:57 +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Christian,
> 
> The grand plan is to be able to use fanotify with FAN_REPORT_FID as a
> drop-in replacement for inotify, but with current upstream, inotify is
> supported on all the filesystems and FAN_REPORT_FID only on a few.
> 
> Making all filesystem support FAN_REPORT_FID requires that all
> filesystems will:
> 1. Support for AT_HANDLE_FID file handles
> 2. Report non-zero f_fsid
> 
> [...]

"Late is the hour in which this patchset chooses to appear."
Let's give it some -next exposure.

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Applied to the vfs.f_fsid branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.f_fsid branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.f_fsid

[1/4] exportfs: add helpers to check if filesystem can encode/decode file handles
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/66c62769bcf6
[2/4] exportfs: make ->encode_fh() a mandatory method for NFS export
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/dfaf653dc415
[3/4] exportfs: define FILEID_INO64_GEN* file handle types
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/2560fa66d2ac
[4/4] exportfs: support encoding non-decodeable file handles by default
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/950f27681add