Re: [RFC 0/2] readdir() as an inode operation

2007-10-30 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 04:26:04PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > This is a first try to move readdir() to become an inode operation. This is > > necessary for a VFS implementation of "something like union-mounts" where a > > readdir() needs to read the directory contents of multiple directories. > > B

Re: [RFC 0/2] readdir() as an inode operation

2007-10-30 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 04:26:04PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > This is a first try to move readdir() to become an inode operation. This is > > necessary for a VFS implementation of "something like union-mounts" where a > > readdir() needs to read the directory contents of multiple directories. > > B

Re: [RFC 0/2] readdir() as an inode operation

2007-10-30 Thread Jan Kara
> This is a first try to move readdir() to become an inode operation. This is > necessary for a VFS implementation of "something like union-mounts" where a > readdir() needs to read the directory contents of multiple directories. > Besides that the new interface is no longer giving the struct file

[RFC 0/2] readdir() as an inode operation

2007-10-20 Thread Jan Blunck
This is a first try to move readdir() to become an inode operation. This is necessary for a VFS implementation of "something like union-mounts" where a readdir() needs to read the directory contents of multiple directories. Besides that the new interface is no longer giving the struct file to the f