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Message-ID: <20071114175322.GD14254@fieldses.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:53:22 -0500
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org>, linux-xfs@....sgi.com,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:44:19PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:39:22PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > This must have come up before; feel free to remind me: is there any way
> > to make the interface easier to use? (E.g. would it help if the filldir
> > callback could be passed a dentry?)
>
> The best thing for the filesystem would be to have a readdirplus
> (or have it folded into readdir) instead of calling into lookup
> from ->filldir.
And the readdirplus would pass a dentry to its equivalent of ->filldir?
Or something else?
--b.
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