On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:40 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > What I don't understand is why getting the fileid is so hard -- always > GETATTR when you GETFH and you'll be fine. I'm guessing that's not as > difficult as it is to maintain a hash table of fileids. You've been sleeping in class. We always try to get the fileid together with the GETFH. The irritating bit is having to redo a GETATTR using the old filehandle in order to figure out if the 2 filehandles refer to the same file. Unlike filehandles, fileids can be reused. Then there is the point of dealing with that servers can (and do!) actually lie to you. Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
