Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:32:25 -0400 | Subject | Re: [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> |
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:33:38PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 07:49:23PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> writes: > > > > > To provide fsnotify object inodes being watched without > > > binding to alphabetical path we need to encode them with > > > exportfs help. This patch adds a helper which operates > > > with plain inodes directly. > > > > doesn't name_to_handle_at() work for you ? It also allows to get a file > > handle using file descriptor. > > Hi, sorry for dealy. Well, the last idea is to get rid of this helper, > I've sent out an updated version where ino+dev is only printed.
I don't understand how ino and dev are useful to you, though, if you're still hoping to be able to look up inodes using this information later on.
--b.
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