Re: [PATCH -V14 0/11] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls

["Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 06:41:08 +1000, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:58:54 +0530
> "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:42:50 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Al,
> > 
> > Any chance of getting this reviewed/merged in the next merge window ?
> 
>  My own opinion of the patchset is that the code itself is fine,
>  however there is one part of the interface that bothers me.
> 
>  I think that it is a little ugly that filesystem uuid extraction is so
>  closely tied to filehandle manipulation.  They are certainly related, and we
>  certainly need to be able to get the filesystem uuid directly from the
>  filesystem, but given that filehandle -> fd mapping doesn't (and shouldn't)
>  use the uuid, the fact that fd/name -> filehandle mapping does return the
>  uuid looks like it is simply piggy backing some functionality on the side,
>  rather than creating a properly designed and general interface.
> 
>  I would feel happier about the patches if you removed all reference to uuids
>  and then found some other way to ask a filesystem what its uuid was.
> 
>  This is not an issue that would make be want to stop the patches going
>  upstream, but it does hold me back from offering a reviewed-by or
>  acked-by (for whatever they might be worth).
> 

One use case i had was that if the userspace file server can directly work
with the returned file system UUID, the it can build the file handle for client
in a single call.


-aneesh