Re: [patch 6/9] fuse: add export operations
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 10:13:11 -0400
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [patch 6/9] fuse: add export operations
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:07:01PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> in i_ino. This is not entirely trivial to fix: we either supply the
> inode numbers to the encoding function explicitly, or use something
> like the get_inode callback in generic_fh_to_dentry/_parent. At which
> point I begin to doubt if it's worth the effort to share this code.
> After all the encoding/decoding functions are not complicated at all.
Doh, in that case using the generic encoce helper doesn't make any
sense. decode doesn't care about i_ino, so it should be useable. I'd
say go ahead with your fuse-local implementation for now, but please use
the 0x8n fh_type values.
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