linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/10] cifs: define inode-level cache object and register them

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Date:	Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:22:29 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Mingming Cao <mcao@...ibm.com>, Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
	DENIEL Philippe <philippe.deniel@....fr>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...ba.org>, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	samba-technical@...ts.samba.org,
	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/10] cifs: define inode-level cache object and
 register them

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:47:21PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:
> NFS ganesha pNFS also had a requirement for getting i_generation and
> inode number in userspace. So may be we should now look at updating
> stat or add a variant syscall that include i_generation and create time
> in the return value

What's missing in knfsd that you feel the sudden urge to move backwards
to a userspace nfsd (one with a horribly crappy codebase, too).

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