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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:53:22 -0500
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc2 XFS nfsd hang
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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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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?

--b.