Re: 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:53:22PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:44:19PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:39:22PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > This must have come up before; feel free to remind me: is there any way
> > > to make the interface easier to use?  (E.g. would it help if the filldir
> > > callback could be passed a dentry?)
> > 
> > The best thing for the filesystem would be to have a readdirplus
> > (or have it folded into readdir) instead of calling into lookup
> > from ->filldir.
> 
> And the readdirplus would pass a dentry to its equivalent of ->filldir?
> Or something else?

Personally I'd prefer it to only grow a struct stat or rather it's members
But the nfsd code currently expects a dentry so this might require some
major refactoring.