Hello again,
I'm trying to implement self-healing functionality in my translator.
I've been browsing source code (basically mount/fuse and cluster/afr
translators) and I see that fuse seems to always make a lookup call each
time it sees a file or directory, at least the first time. If that's
true in all cases, I'm thinking in putting almost all self-healing logic
into the lookup callback, and use readdir to detect directory
discrepancies. The only thing that I may miss are extended attributes,
that I will only detect if they are corrupted when a getxattr
referencing them will be called.
Browsing cluster/afr source I see that self-healing logic is
distributed among different functions. Specially I see some checks in
open fop. Why these checks can't be done in the lookup fop ? is there
any advantage doing it this way ? is there a combination that can't be
checked in the lookup previous to the open ?
It would be nice if there were some special dictionary key to retrieve
all extended attributes. This way would be easier to detect and
regenerate earlier the extended attributes (from lookup).
Thank you very much,
Xavi
