From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: staubach@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFS: new fgetattr() file operation
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:42:35 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071025224235.GZ995458@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Iki8O-0005nu-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > >> Wouldn't you be better off by attempting to implement an "open
> > >> by ino" operation and an operation to get the generation count
> > >> for the file and then modifying the network protocol of interest
> > >> to use these as identifiers for the file to be manipulated?
> > >>
> > >
> > > You mean an "open by inode" on the userspace API? My guess, it
> > > wouldn't get very far.
> >
> > This isn't a new idea and has been implemented on a variety of
> > different systems.
>
> Like?
XFS.
'man open_by_handle'
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 11:59 Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-24 13:02 ` Peter Staubach
2007-10-24 13:43 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-24 15:02 ` Peter Staubach
2007-10-24 15:27 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-25 22:42 ` David Chinner [this message]
2007-10-25 23:10 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-25 23:52 ` David Chinner
2007-10-26 9:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
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