On 08/21/2012 04:51 PM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 08/21/2012 03:29 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > <> > >> OK. So if you don't mind the fact that there are filesystems with >> inotify support but not filehandle support, then I think generating a >> filehandle early as you describe would work. I guess it's a little more >> memory per watched inode. >> > > > For the minority of FSs that do not have a filehandle support it should > be easy to generate a generic one, that should work 95% of the time. Yup, this is how exportfd_encode_fh currently works. > Are we guaranteed that after the checkpoint restore the version of > the Kernel is the same as the one that did the checkpoint? If yes > then I don't see any problem. Strictly speaking -- no we don't. Migration should to work across kernel versions (from older to newer). Why kernel version matters in this case? >> --b. > > > Cheers > Boaz > -- 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
