Re: [patch 3/7] fs, notify: Add file handle entry into inotify_inode_mark

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On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:00:32 +0400
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Dumb question: do we really need inotify_inode_mark.fhandle at all? 
> > What prevents us from assembling this info on demand when ->show_fdinfo() is
> > called?
> 
> exportfs requires the dentry to be passed as an argument while inotify works
> with inodes instead and at moment of show-fdinfo the target dentry might be
> already deleted but inode yet present as far as I remember.

How can the c/r restore code reestablish the inode data if the dentry
isn't there any more?
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