Christoph Hellwig wrote:
[$BIGNUM repost since August 2002, still zero feedback]
The rewritten 2.5 nfsd export handling introduce a funcion,
d_alloc_anon, to get an dentry for a given inode, either taking
a well-connected one or allocating a new one.
In 2.4 we have the functionality that it does in 2.4 duplicated over
nfsd and all filesystems having their own fh_to_dentry method, and
XFS needs even more instances of this for other handle to dentry
conversations.
Speaking of XFS, would it be possible to merge it into the
2.4.X mainline any time soon? Despite what Alan says, XFS
doesn't touch any more core code then his ide rewrite has.
Also, the sendfile64 syscall modified core code as well.
So, I don't think he or anyone else can get away with
rejecting it based on it modifying core code. JFS has been
in there for a few releases now, and I'd argue that there
are probably more XFS users then JFS users. Since it was
accepted into 2.5 awhile back, it seems appropriate (to me)
that it eventually go into 2.4. IT would also have the side
benefit of keeping the XFS code more (or less) in sync with
what's in bk. Just a thought....
Cheers,
Nicholas
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