From: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATH 18/19] exportfs: update documentation
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:24:24 +1000
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:17:24PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> + encode_fh  (optinonal)
                ^^^^^^^^^
> +    Takes a dentry and creates a filehandle fragment which can later be used
> +    to find/create a dentry for the same object.  The default implementation
> +    creates a filehandle fragment that encodes a 32bit inode and generation
> +    number for the inode encoded, and if nessecary the same information for
                                            ^^^^^^^^^
> +    the parent.
> +
> +  fh_to_dentry (mandatory)
> +    Given a filehandle fragment, this should find the implied object and
> +    create a dentry for it (possibly with d_alloc_anon).
> +
> +  fh_to_parent (optional but strongly recommended)
> +    Given a filehandle fragment, this should find the parent of the
> +    implied object and create a dentry for it (possibly with d_alloc_anon).
> +    May simplify fail if the filehandle fragment is too small.
           ^^^^^^^^

Greg.
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