From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@parallels.com>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:41:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120816144152.GT23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120816141553.GF1209@moon>
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:15:53PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 02:03:00PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > > What's wrong with saying "we don't support idiotify"?
> > >
> > > Al, we need some way to restore inotifies after checkpoint.
> > > At the very early versions of these patches I simply added
> > > dentry to the inotify mark thus once inotify created we always
> > > have a dentry to refer on in encode_fh, but I'm not sure if
> > > this will be good design.
> >
> > Actually, I was about to suggest this. This can be done internally
> > within fs/notify without actually modifying the syscall interface, can't
> > it, since they take a path which is used to obtain the inode? It looks
> > like the whole of the inotify interface could be internally recast to
> > use dentries instead of inodes. Unless I've missed something obvious?
>
> Well, after looking into do_sys_name_to_handle->exportfs_encode_fh
> sequence more precisely it seems it will be easier to extend
> exportfs_encode_fh to support inodes directly instead of playing
> with notify code (again, if i'm not missing something too).
> i'm cooking a patch to show (once it's tested i'll send it out).
Good luck doing that with e.g. VFAT... And then there's such thing
as filesystems that don't have ->encode_fh() for a lot of very good
reasons; just try to do that on sysfs, for example. Or on ramfs,
for that matter... And while saying "you can't export that over
NFS" seems to work fine, idiotify-lovers will screech if you try
to ban their perversion of choice on those filesystems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-16 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-15 9:21 [patch 0/8] procfs, fdinfo updated Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 1/8] procfs: Move /proc/pid/fd[info] handling code to fd.[ch] Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 2/8] procfs: Convert /proc/pid/fdinfo/ handling routines to seq-file Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 21:16 ` Al Viro
2012-08-15 21:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 21:29 ` Al Viro
2012-08-15 21:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 10:58 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 4/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 20:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-15 21:02 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 22:06 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-16 6:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 12:38 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 12:47 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-16 13:16 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 14:57 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 15:05 ` Al Viro
2012-08-16 15:09 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 13:43 ` Al Viro
2012-08-16 13:47 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-16 13:50 ` Al Viro
2012-08-16 13:53 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-16 13:54 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 14:03 ` James Bottomley
2012-08-16 14:13 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-16 14:15 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 14:41 ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-08-16 14:48 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 14:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-16 14:55 ` Al Viro
2012-08-16 15:06 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-16 15:35 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 15:07 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-17 20:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-16 13:48 ` Al Viro
2012-08-20 14:19 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-08-20 16:33 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-20 18:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-20 19:06 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-20 19:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-20 19:40 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-21 9:18 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 10:42 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-08-21 10:49 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 10:54 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-21 11:09 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 12:11 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-21 12:22 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 12:29 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-21 12:40 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 12:51 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-08-21 12:59 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-21 13:08 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-08-21 13:12 ` Al Viro
2012-08-21 13:40 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-21 12:09 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-21 12:25 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-22 5:49 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-08-23 8:06 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-23 8:54 ` Marco Stornelli
2012-08-23 9:29 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 5/8] fs, notify: Add procfs fdinfo helper v3 Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 6/8] fs, eventfd: Add procfs fdinfo helper Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 7/8] fs, epoll: Add procfs fdinfo helper v2 Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 8/8] fdinfo: Show sigmask for signalfd fd v2 Cyrill Gorcunov
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