Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Create dentries and inodes at dir open

On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:12:28 -0500 Steven Rostedt wrote: > Maybe I can just use a hash to generate he inode numbers from the name? > Hopefully there will be no collisions. Then I don't need the dentry > creation at all. Maybe I could use a hash of the address of the meta data to create the inode

Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Create dentries and inodes at dir open

On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:55:15 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > [ html crud because I still don't have power or real Internet, just trying > to keep an eye on things on my phone. Mailing lists removed to avoid > bounces, please put them back in replies that don't have my horrible > formatting ] > > N

[PATCH] eventfs: Create dentries and inodes at dir open

From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" The original eventfs code added a wrapper around the dcache_readdir open callback and created all the dentries and inodes at open, and increment their ref count. A wrapper was added around the dcache_readdir release function to decrement all the ref counts of those