Re: [RFC Aufs2 #5 28/29] export lookup functions

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Apr 10 2009 - 12:54:49 EST


On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:47:15AM +0900, hooanon05@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Christoph Hellwig:
> > Strong NACK to all these exports, no one has any buesiness looking at
> > these.
>
> Will you tell me why?
> If you have ever discussed exporting lookup_hash(), then please tell me
> its URL or something.
>
> lookup_hash is necessary for aufs since,

All these are vfs-internal bits, and there is no way we are going to
export them. aufs does a lot of really weird things like this because
it's doing things in a filesystem that should be done in the VFS.

Just making sure these exports aren't going to accidentally put in if
Greg happens to suck this pile into the staging tree.
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