On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:44:17AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:21:43AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Please do. > > Well, there's one stumling block I haven't made progress on yet: > > I've changed the prototype of ->fsync to lose the dentry as we should > always have a valid file struct. Except that nfsd doesn't on > directories. So I either need to fake up a file there, or bail out > and add a ->dir_sync export operation that needs just a dentry. OK. I don't know much about hthat code, but I would think nfsd should look as close to the syscall layer as possible. I guess there must be something prohibitive (some protocol semantics?). Is there anything that particularly makes it a file operation as opposed to an inode operation? -- 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
