Re: [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 02:50:19PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:47:06PM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > On 08/16/2012 05:43 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:38:14PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Hi Bruce, thinking a bit more I guess using general encode_fh is not that
> > >> convenient since it operates with dentries while our fdinfo output deals
> > >> with inodes. Thus I should either provide some new encode_fh variant
> > >> which would deal with inodes directly without "parents". Which doesn't
> > >> look for me anyhow better than the new export_encode_inode_fh helper.
> > > 
> > > Huh?  You do have dentries, for crying out loud...
> > 
> > Sometimes we don't -- the inotify thing gets an inode only.
> > Unlike other notifies that have dentries at hands...
> 
> What's wrong with saying "we don't support idiotify"?

Al, we need some way to restore inotifies after checkpoint.
At the very early versions of these patches I simply added
dentry to the inotify mark thus once inotify created we always
have a dentry to refer on in encode_fh, but I'm not sure if
this will be good design.

	Cyrill
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