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

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On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:

> 
> 
> On 03/02/2012 12:19 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 2, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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-)  

Thanks for reminding me!  Patch soon.

-dros

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