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Message-ID: <20071114180838.GE14254@fieldses.org> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:08:38 -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 06:02:41PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:53:22PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > 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? > > Personally I'd prefer it to only grow a struct stat or rather it's members > But the nfsd code currently expects a dentry so this might require some > major refactoring. Well, we need to check for mountpoints, for example, so I don't see any way out of needing a dentry. What's the drawback? --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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