(I trimmed the cc list ofthe individuals, but I expect they will
see it anyway).
On Tuesday December 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
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> > > For less critical stuff (== near post-2.4.0):
> > > ->fhandle_to_dentry() (maybe it will go before the 2.4)
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> > That one is pretty critical for NFS
>
> OK, I'll bump it up in the queue.
Certainly I would like to have this, but I don't know that it is
critical for 2.4. The new file-handle-to-dentry code in 2.3.current
works reasonably well, as long as you don't export a FAT filesystem.
However when specific support for nfsd is included in the vfs
interface, there also needs to be:
dentry_to_filehandle
sync_inode
get_fs_attributes
dentry_to_filehandle and filehande_to_dentry should not expect to see
the whole filehandle, but only the filesystems specific part of it.
sync_inode is needed to force a SETATTR or a CREATE to disc before replying.
There also needs to be a way to force a symlink creation to disc -
maybe sync_inode could do that too?
get_fs_attributes should report about case-insensitivity, max filename
length, max link count, and possibly others.
I had in mind an nfsd_operations structure, but putting the various
operations in super_operations, and inode_operations as appropriate
would be reasonable.
NeilBrown
