From: "NeilBrown" <neilb@suse.de>
To: "Chuck Lever III" <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: "Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
"Linux NFS Mailing List" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFSD: drop support for ancient file-handles
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 07:38:10 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <163001389048.7591.12518735969639627593@noble.neil.brown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BDD839B0-7837-4421-940B-6DB9EC31043E@oracle.com>
On Fri, 27 Aug 2021, Chuck Lever III wrote:
>
> > On Aug 26, 2021, at 12:28 AM, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > File-handles not in the "new" or "version 1" format have not been handed
> > out for new mounts since Linux 2.4 which was released 20 years ago.
> > I think it is safe to say that no such file handles are still in use,
> > and that we can drop support for them.
> >
> > This patch also moves the nfsfh.h from the include/uapi directory into
> > fs/nfsd. I can find no evidence of it being used anywhere outside the
> > kernel. Certainly nfs-utils and wireshark do not use it.
> >
> > fh_base and fh_pad are occasionally used to refer to the whole
> > filehandle. These are replaced with "fh_raw" which is hopefully more
> > meaningful.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
> > ---
> >
> > I found
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg43280.html
> > "Re: [PATCH] nfsd: clean up fh_auth usage"
> > from 2014 where moving nfsfh.h out of uapi was considered but not
> > actioned. Christoph said he would "do some research if the
> > uapi <linux/nfsd/*.h> headers are used anywhere at all". I can find no
> > report on the result of that research. My own research turned up
> > nothing.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > NeilBrown
>
> Hi Neil-
>
> I have no philosophical objection to this clean up, but I'm
> concerned a bit about timing. It's a large patch, and 5.15
> should be opening on Sunday. I would prefer this to go into
> 5.16, if that's OK with you?
No problem at all. I enjoy the luxury of send patches whenever I'm
ready, and assume you will process them only when you are ready. I do,
of course, appreciate knowing what you plan.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-26 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-26 4:28 [PATCH] NFSD: drop support for ancient file-handles NeilBrown
2021-08-26 6:03 ` [PATCH v2] BTRFS/NFSD: provide more unique inode number for btrfs export NeilBrown
2021-08-26 20:19 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-08-26 22:10 ` NeilBrown
2021-08-27 14:53 ` Frank Filz
2021-08-27 22:57 ` NeilBrown
2021-08-27 23:46 ` Frank Filz
2021-08-27 23:55 ` NeilBrown
2021-08-28 2:21 ` Frank Filz
2021-08-27 18:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-08-27 23:01 ` NeilBrown
2021-08-27 16:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-27 23:05 ` NeilBrown
2021-08-28 7:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-31 4:59 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-01 7:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-01 15:22 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-09-02 4:14 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-05 16:07 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-09-06 1:29 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-11 14:12 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-09-13 0:43 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-13 10:04 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-09-13 22:59 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-14 5:45 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-09-20 22:09 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-02 7:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-02 4:06 ` NeilBrown
2021-09-02 7:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-02 7:53 ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-09-02 14:16 ` Frank Filz
2021-09-02 23:02 ` NeilBrown
2021-08-26 14:10 ` [PATCH] NFSD: drop support for ancient file-handles Chuck Lever III
2021-08-26 21:38 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2021-08-26 14:51 ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-08-26 21:41 ` NeilBrown
2021-08-27 15:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-27 23:24 ` NeilBrown
2021-08-31 4:41 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] NFSD: drop support for ancient filehandles NeilBrown
2021-08-31 4:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] NFSD: simplify struct nfsfh NeilBrown
2021-09-01 7:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-01 7:44 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] NFSD: drop support for ancient filehandles Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-01 14:21 ` Chuck Lever III
2021-09-02 1:14 ` [PATCH 1/3 v3] NFSD: move filehandle format declarations out of "uapi" NeilBrown
2021-09-02 1:15 ` [PATCH 2/3 v3] NFSD: drop support for ancient filehandles NeilBrown
2021-09-02 1:16 ` [PATCH 3/3 v3] NFSD: simplify struct nfsfh NeilBrown
2021-09-02 7:22 ` [PATCH 2/3 v3] NFSD: drop support for ancient filehandles Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-02 7:21 ` [PATCH 1/3 v3] NFSD: move filehandle format declarations out of "uapi" Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-23 21:21 ` Bruce Fields
2021-09-25 4:21 ` NeilBrown
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