Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:51:36 +0300 | From | Boaz Harrosh <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper |
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On 08/21/2012 03:29 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: <>
> OK. So if you don't mind the fact that there are filesystems with > inotify support but not filehandle support, then I think generating a > filehandle early as you describe would work. I guess it's a little more > memory per watched inode. >
For the minority of FSs that do not have a filehandle support it should be easy to generate a generic one, that should work 95% of the time.
Are we guaranteed that after the checkpoint restore the version of the Kernel is the same as the one that did the checkpoint? If yes then I don't see any problem.
> --b.
Cheers Boaz
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