linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] fat: allocate persistent inode numbers

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Date:	Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:31:31 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bfields@...ldses.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>,
	Ravishankar N <ravi.n1@...sung.com>,
	Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] fat: allocate persistent inode numbers

Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com> writes:

> -	inode->i_ino = iunique(sb, MSDOS_ROOT_INO);
> +	if (MSDOS_SB(sb)->options.nfs == FAT_NFS_LIMITED)
> +		inode->i_ino = i_pos;
> +	else
> +		inode->i_ino = iunique(sb, MSDOS_ROOT_INO);
>  	inode->i_version = 1;
>  	err = fat_fill_inode(inode, de);
>  	if (err) {

I think we don't need this. Because FH and ino is not necessary to have
relation.

Can we re-introduce ->encode_fh() handler, and export i_pos again?  With
this, I think we can get i_pos correctly. Otherwise, ino may not contain
all bits of i_pos.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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