On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 08:54:54AM +0200, Alexander Viro wrote:
[flame snipped -- hopefully everybody can go back to normal work now]
>
> ObNFS: weird as it may sound to you, I actually write stuff - not
> "subcontract" to somebody else. So I'm afraid that I have slightly less
> free time than you do. FWIC, in Reiserfs context nfsd is a non-issue.
> Current kludge is not too lovely, but it's well-isolated and can be
> replaced fast. So ->read_inode2() is ugly, but in my opinion it's not an
> obstacle. If other problems will be resolved and by that time
> ->fh_to_dentry() interface will not be in place - count on my vote for
> temporary adding ->read_inode2().
In the long run some generic support for 64bit inodes will be needed
anyways -- other file systems depend on that too (e.g. XFS). So
fh_to_dentry only saves you temporarily. I think adding read_inode2
early is the best.
-Andi
