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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semanticchange patch)
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On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:45:47AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:

    Can you define f_cred for us?

Surely is becomes a fs-specific opaque type, void* or whatever?  For
many filesystems it somply won't be relevant, and for some filesystems
such as NFS and Coda, presumably it will need deep fs-specific
details?



  --cw