Re: TAKE - Add a dmapi<>fs hook to put a hold on a vnode/inode

[Dean Roehrich <roehrich@xxxxxxx>]

>From:  Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>Wouldn't life be much simpler if dmapi gets moved back to fs/xfs/dmapi
>and into the xfs module so it can access all those APIs directly?


We've been talking about moving it back.  Even if I do that, I still want to
make it a little less knowledgable about XFS.

>The current code is of no use for other filesystems anyway..

I see no reason for anyone to start a new DMAPI project from scratch.  This
code can eventually be massaged into shape.  The (relatively) recent
fh_to_dentry and dentry_to_fh VFS hooks go a long way toward making this
possible.

Does anyone have an have an opinion on moving the dmapi code back to
fs/xfs/dmapi?

Dean