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List:       linux-fsdevel
Subject:    [PATCH -V21 00/12] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls
From:       "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar () linux ! vnet ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2010-10-05 10:34:08
Message-ID: 1286274140-26533-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar () linux ! vnet ! ibm ! com
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Hi,

The below set of patches implement open by handle support using exportfs
operations. This allows user space application to map a file name to file
handle and later open the file using handle. This should be usable
for userspace NFS [1] and 9P server [2]. XFS already support this with the ioctls
XFS_IOC_PATH_TO_HANDLE and XFS_IOC_OPEN_BY_HANDLE.

[1] http://nfs-ganesha.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/68992

git repo for the patchset at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvaneesh/linux-open-handle.git open-by-handle

Test case can be found at
http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/ext2/kvaneesh/handle-test.git
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/kvaneesh/handle-test.git

Changes from V20:
a) Use better variable names
b) change handle_size type to __u32
c) max handle size is now nfsv4 handle size. Considering file system would
   want to support a handle that can fit into nfsv4 handle size limiting
   max handle size to 128 rather than 4096 is the right thing.
d) I didn't add Ceph changes in the series. I am expecting the changes
   will go via Ceph tree.

-aneesh

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