Re: tmpfs, NFS, file handles

Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:04:43 +1100 (EST)

On February 21, davidchow@shaolinmicro.com wrote:
>
> What I suggest is nfsd should export a symbol called
> generic_fh_to_dentry() such that it will be more generic like
> generic_file_read() to handle gneeric calls for every fs.

But every filesystem is really very different in this reguard.

What would you think this "generic_fh_to_dentry" should do?

We actually already have one. You set ->fh_to_dentry to NULL, and the
it used "iget".

NeilBrown
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