> So I have converted all the xattr internals over to an inode from a > dentry but there is one issue with that. To set EAs on CIFS they need a > full path for the file. I don't think we can reconcile using inodes in > the vfs operation with CIFS needing a path. If you have a suggestion on > how to handle this I'm more than willing to listen. Everything else > however seems to be a trivial change. Since there are no hardlinks in CIFS (or are there?) it coukld get the dentry back with d_find_alias(). But what's the point? Why is it better to pass the inode, rather than dentry down to the filesystem? Hiding info from lower layers is not generally a good idea if there are valid uses for it. I don't buy Chritoph's argument, that filesystems working with paths instead of inodes are inherently broken. Miklos -- 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
