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.
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