linux-kernel - Re: [patch 6/9] fuse: add export operations

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Message-ID: <20080515141311.GA14965@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 10:13:11 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	hch@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 6/9] fuse: add export operations

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:07:01PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> in i_ino.  This is not entirely trivial to fix: we either supply the
> inode numbers to the encoding function explicitly, or use something
> like the get_inode callback in generic_fh_to_dentry/_parent.  At which
> point I begin to doubt if it's worth the effort to share this code.
> After all the encoding/decoding functions are not complicated at all.

Doh, in that case using the generic encoce helper doesn't make any
sense.  decode doesn't care about i_ino, so it should be useable.  I'd
say go ahead with your fuse-local implementation for now, but please use
the 0x8n fh_type values.

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