"Steven J. Magnani" <st...@digidescorp.com> writes:

>> Hm, not really, if the file handle is including parent ino. ext2 will
>> get the latest parent ino, because it checks parent of inode of file
>> handle.
>
> Can you point me to the code for this? The code I see looks pretty
> congruent to what I think the FAT code would be.
>
>> But if the file handle is including parent ino and we believe it is
>> parent, I think NFS server can be return the old parent. The difference
>> is the result of ->get_parent().
>
> I'm a little confused about which function we're discussing here.
> fat_get_parent() isn't called with a file handle. fat_fh_to_parent() is,
> but it is only called by exportfs_decode_fh() and I am reasonably sure
> that that function is handling the case you're concerned about.

Oh, you are right. I should discuss about it based on the new patch, and
only if there is new usage of file handle (e.g. parent->i_no).
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirof...@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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