On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:40:54PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > This series adds the infrastructure and conversion of filesystems to the > new API. > > Two filesystems are not converted: FUSE and CIFS, as they behave > differently from local filesystems (use the file pointer, don't perform > permission checks). It's likely that these two can be supported with minor > changes to the API, but this requires more thought. Why not change the API now? ie pass the file instead of the dentry?