Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> [cc trimmed - folks, maillists are there for purpose]
>
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
> > >
> > > > We agree, these fixes have already started. We'll send them to you as
> > > > they stabilize. I would much rather have your help getting rid of
> > > > read_inode2 than cleaning up our other messes ;-)
> > >
> > > I need to get fhandle_to_dentry() stable on ext2. From the look at your
> > > code there should be no serious problems with that stuff.
> > >
> > Ok, sounds good.
>
> Basically you'll need two things to take that code: way to find the ID of
> ".." _and_ way to get the name by ID. Both are trivial with ext2 directory
> structure. What will they cost on reiserfs? Both are needed only when
> knfsd gets an fhandle cache miss and currently done via lookup() and
> readdir() (with funny filldir) from underlying filesystem. Which amounts
> to heck of overhead. _Anything_ will be better than ->readdir() - count
> the calls of filldir and you'll see.
Forgive me, but define ID. Is it a general flexible, or a specific, term. Can
it mean key of variable length?
Hans
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