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. - 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/
