Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:23:17 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: encode_fh: have inode but no dentry |
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:16:34PM -0800, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > Hi Aneesh -- > > I see you are continuing with encode_fh related > development so I thought I would bring this up > with you. > > I have a need to call the encode_fh op in a > situation where I have an inode but not a dentry, > and calling d_find_alias(inode) sometimes returns > NULL. In my usage, connectable is always zero, so > having just the inode should be sufficient to get > useful results from encode_fh, at least for the > filesystems I've looked at.
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> Such a change would require a patch that touched > nearly every filesystem so it's clearly not to > be taken lightly. > > Any thoughts on this?
How about "tell us what do you need that for", for starters?
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