On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 07:45:49AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > We can try going this route, what do you think? > > I still don't understand why you need a dentry to get the filehandle. > The current api may ask for one, but it shouldn't really be necessary > (assuming you don't want parent directory information encoded in the > filehandle, which I hope you don't). As far as I know we don't need parent encoded. So Bruce, you think to modify exportfs instead to work with inode directly? 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