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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:33:23 +0530 From: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: hch@...radead.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, adilger@....com, corbet@....net, neilb@...e.de, npiggin@...nel.dk, hooanon05@...oo.co.jp, bfields@...ldses.org, miklos@...redi.hu Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, sfrench@...ibm.com, philippe.deniel@....FR, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -V21 00/12] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:52:08 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The below set of patches implement open by handle support using exportfs > operations. This allows user space application to map a file name to file > handle and later open the file using handle. This should be usable > for userspace NFS [1] and 9P server [2]. XFS already support this with the ioctls > XFS_IOC_PATH_TO_HANDLE and XFS_IOC_OPEN_BY_HANDLE. > > [1] http://nfs-ganesha.sourceforge.net/ > [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/68992 > > git repo for the patchset at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvaneesh/linux-open-handle.git open-by-handle > > Test case can be found at > http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/ext2/kvaneesh/handle-test.git > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/kvaneesh/handle-test.git > > Changes from V20: > a) Use better variable names > b) change handle_size type to __u32 > c) max handle size is now nfsv4 handle size. Considering file system would > want to support a handle that can fit into nfsv4 handle size limiting > max handle size to 128 rather than 4096 is the right thing. > d) I didn't add Ceph changes in the series. I am expecting the changes > will go via Ceph tree. > Hi Al, Any update on this ? Can we get this merged in this merge window. -aneesh -- 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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