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SubjectRe: For review: open_by_name_at(2) man page
On 03/18/2014 10:43 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 09:00:07AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
>> ESTALE is also returned if the filesystem does not support file-handle ->
>> file mappings.
>> On filesystems which don't provide export_operations (/sys /proc ubifs
>> romfs cramfs nfs coda ... several others) name_to_handle_at will produce a
>> generic handle using the 32 bit inode and 32 bit i_generation.
>
> Do we? Seems like the code is erroring out early if there are no
> export_ops?

It appears to me that Neil's statement isn't correct, at least for /proc
and /sys (see my other mail, to Neil). I'm unsure about whether it is true
for some of those other FSes thought.

>> Does it? My understanding from "man libblkid" (it is a while since I've read
>> the code) is that it either uses info in /dev/disks/by-* or reads directly
>> from the block devices (maybe using /sys to find them?) and interprets the
>> superblock to extract a UUID.
>
> It normally reads directly from disk, unless it has changed very
> recently.

Thanks. As noted in my mail, I solved this one by just saying a little less
about libblkid.

Cheers,

Michael


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