On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 02:50:19PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:47:06PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > > On 08/16/2012 05:43 PM, Al Viro wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:38:14PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Bruce, thinking a bit more I guess using general encode_fh is not that > > >> convenient since it operates with dentries while our fdinfo output deals > > >> with inodes. Thus I should either provide some new encode_fh variant > > >> which would deal with inodes directly without "parents". Which doesn't > > >> look for me anyhow better than the new export_encode_inode_fh helper. > > > > > > Huh? You do have dentries, for crying out loud... > > > > Sometimes we don't -- the inotify thing gets an inode only. > > Unlike other notifies that have dentries at hands... > > What's wrong with saying "we don't support idiotify"? Al, we need some way to restore inotifies after checkpoint. At the very early versions of these patches I simply added dentry to the inotify mark thus once inotify created we always have a dentry to refer on in encode_fh, but I'm not sure if this will be good design. Cyrill -- 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
