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 12:02:24PM -0500, Dean Roehrich wrote:
> Modid:  2.4.x-xfs:slinx:123364a
> linux/fs/xfs/xfs_dmapi.c - 1.71
>       - Add xfs_dm_obj_ref_hold(), as interface to VN_HOLD().
> 
> linux/include/linux/dmapi_kern.h - 1.15
>       - create DM_FSYS_OBJ_REF_HOLD and dm_fsys_obj_ref_hold_t.
> 
> linux/fs/xfs_dmapi/dmapi_private.h - 1.16
>       - Add dm_fsys_obj_ref_hold_t.
> 
> linux/fs/xfs_dmapi/dmapi_mountinfo.c - 1.8
>       - Add DM_FSYS_OBJ_REF_HOLD.

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?

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