Re: [PATCH 09/15] NFS: Add a client-side function to display NFS file handles

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On 03/02/2012 12:19 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
> 
> On Mar 2, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On 03/01/2012 05:28 PM, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 17:01 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>> For debugging, introduce a simplistic function to print NFS file
>>>> handles on the system console.  The main function is hooked into the
>>>> dprintk debugging facility, but you can directly call the helper,
>>>> _nfs_display_fhandle(), if you want to print a handle unconditionally.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>
>>> One of the things that I really like about wireshark is that it also
>>> displays a 32-bit hexadecimal hash of the filehandle. That allows you to
>>> compare 2 filehandles _much_ faster than trying to look at the full
>>> shebang.
>>>
>>>
>> +1 Being able to easily trace filehandle in both the kernel debug and
>> wireshark would be huge.... IMHO...
> 
> Dros mentioned a possible follow-on patch last night at the pub that would add exactly this functionality.
> 
And they say good things don't come out of debauchery!!! 8-)  
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