Re: ext2 warning in Linux 2.2.7
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 5 May 1999 15:05:06 +0100 (BST)
> and only for regular lookups. Maybe we should give up on using inumber
> here (we are using pair of inumbers anyway) and leave the decision re what
> is proper fhandle to filesystem drivers. That would mean adding
> dentry_to_fh and fh_to_dentry methods and dropping the corresponding code
> from knfsd. If filesystem doesn't implement them - though luck, stale
> dentry => stale fhandle. We can't do any better for ISOFS and friends
> anyway.
That would be reasonable. The file handle has to survive reboots. That is
the hard bit. A lot of FS's can arrange that - ISOfs included, but the
logic does belong in the fs itself.
Alan
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