Re: [RFD 1/4] Pass no useless nameidata to the create, lookup, and permission IOPs

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:11:41PM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
> Perhaps it is also time to put the dentry + mnt into a single struct path?
> It's a small change, but it emphasizes that the two items here, dentry+mnt,
> really define a single path to be passed around:

No.  The vfsmount will go away completely medium-term once we get right
of the atomic open nfs hack that paases a file back in the open intent.
A normal filesystem has not business looking at the vfsmount instance at
all, and the raw open/create we need to replace the atomic open hack
will need the full nameidata per definition, also to allow things like
a multi-component lookup that various cluster/network filesystems really
want.

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