linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/2] readdir() as an inode operation

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Message-ID: <20071031071353.GB20965@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:13:53 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux-Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] readdir() as an inode operation

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 04:26:04PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > This is a first try to move readdir() to become an inode operation. This is
> > necessary for a VFS implementation of "something like union-mounts" where a
> > readdir() needs to read the directory contents of multiple directories.
> > Besides that the new interface is no longer giving the struct file to the
> > filesystem implementations anymore.
> > 
> > Comments, please?
>   Hmm, are you sure there are no users which keep some per-struct-file
> information for directories? File offset is one such obvious thing which
> you've handled but actually filesystem with more complicated structure
> of directory may remember some hints about where we really are, keep
> some readahead information or so...

For example, the ext3 filesystem, when it is supported hash tree, does
exactly this.  See ext3_htree_store_dirent() in fs/ext3/dir.c and
ext3_htree_fill_tree() in fs/ext3/namei.c.

So your patch would break ext3 htree support.

						- Ted
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