Re: Getting the nfs_fh of a specific file/dir from the kernel

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Thu Feb 08 2007 - 15:39:34 EST


On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:38:48PM +0200, Menny Hamburger wrote:
> I have a piece of code in my 2.6 kernel that associates an ioctl
> file_operation to nfs in file.c and dir.c.
> This ioctl sends the nfs_fh to a userland application.

Doesn't /proc/fs/nfsd/filehandle do what you want already?

See nfs-util/utils/mountd/cache.c:cache_get_filehandle(), or, for the
kernel side, linux/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:write_filehandle().

(Just out of curiosity--why are you doing this?)

--b.
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