From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
adilger@sun.com, corbet@lwn.net, neilb@suse.de, npiggin@suse.de,
hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp, bfields@fieldses.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, sfrench@us.ibm.com,
philippe.deniel@CEA.FR, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V16 02/12] vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:38:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1OYM1q-0006wn-Rn@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbk5yrhl.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com)
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:
> That would include another stat call on the file to get the st_dev ? As
> per the last review (Message-id:20100708082143.3701bfc7@notabene.brown)
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1007385 we discussed that
> it would be nice to add st_dev as a part of handle. Later I suggested
> it would be nice to get mount_id instead of st_dev because st_dev is
> not stable (against remounts) for file system that doesn't have a
> backing device. So instead of using something that is partially stable,
> add mnt_id which is explicitly stated to be unstable across remounts.
>
> If you are against having mount_id as a part of struct file_handle, do
> you think we could add it as a extra argument to syscall ?
Yeah, I think that would be cleaner.
Thanks,
Miklos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-12 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-12 6:35 [PATCH -V16 0/12] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 01/12] exportfs: Return the minimum required handle size Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 02/12] vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 8:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-07-12 9:33 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-07-12 16:38 ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 03/12] vfs: Add open by file handle support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 04/12] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 8:23 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-07-12 9:42 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-07-12 16:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 05/12] vfs: Support null pathname in readlink Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 8:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 06/12] vfs: Support null pathname in faccessat Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 07/12] vfs: Support null pathname in linkat Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 8:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-07-12 10:58 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-07-12 17:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-07-13 5:47 ` Matt Helsley
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 08/12] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_32 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 09/12] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 10/12] vfs: Export file system uuid via /proc/<pid>mountinfo Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 7:19 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-07-12 8:27 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 11/12] ext3: Copy fs UUID to superblock Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-12 6:35 ` [PATCH -V16 12/12] ext4: " Aneesh Kumar K.V
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