Re: [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper

On 08/16/2012 05:43 PM, Al Viro wrote:

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:38:14PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

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Hi Bruce, thinking a bit more I guess using general encode_fh is not that
convenient since it operates with dentries while our fdinfo output deals
with inodes. Thus I should either provide some new encode_fh variant
which would deal with inodes directly without "parents". Which doesn't
look for me anyhow better than the new export_encode_inode_fh helper.

Huh?  You do have dentries, for crying out loud...

Sometimes we don't -- the inotify thing gets an inode only.
Unlike other notifies that have dentries at hands...

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Thanks,
Pavel