Re: [patch 3/7] fs, notify: Add file handle entry intoinotify_inode_mark

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Wed Nov 14 2012 - 08:03:42 EST


On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 07:45:49AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >
> > We can try going this route, what do you think?
>
> I still don't understand why you need a dentry to get the filehandle.
> The current api may ask for one, but it shouldn't really be necessary
> (assuming you don't want parent directory information encoded in the
> filehandle, which I hope you don't).

As far as I know we don't need parent encoded. So Bruce, you think
to modify exportfs instead to work with inode directly?

Cyrill
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