On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 03:07:46PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:08:38PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > Personally I'd prefer it to only grow a struct stat or rather it's members > > > But the nfsd code currently expects a dentry so this might require some > > > major refactoring. > > > > Well, we need to check for mountpoints, for example, so I don't see any > > way out of needing a dentry. What's the drawback? > > You're right - we'd probably need the dentry. The drawback is that > we need to always get it in the dcache. Which might be a good thing > depending on the workload.
In any case, if the new api were only used by nfsd for now, then there'd be no change here. Seems like it might be worth a try. --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
