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

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:39:01PM -0500, Dean Roehrich wrote:
> 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.

Okay.  Although this is only depend on the IRIX-ported vfs/vnode layer,
not XFS itself.  And this depency is hardcoded almost everywhere in the
dmapi code.

> >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.

Yes.  But the "massaging" would be _major_ overhaul of the interfaces
and should not happen in the XFS tree ubt rather on a copy of the code.

> The (relatively) recent
> fh_to_dentry and dentry_to_fh VFS hooks go a long way toward making this
> possible.

They're gone again in 2.5..