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Update documentation to the current state of affairs.  Remove duplicated
method descruptions in exportfs.h and point to Documentation/filesystems/
Exporting instead.  Add a little file header comment in expfs.c describing
what's going on and mentioning Neils and my copyright [1].

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-21 16:42:19 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3965516440
commit e38f981758
3 changed files with 65 additions and 107 deletions
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@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@
Making Filesystems Exportable
=============================
Most filesystem operations require a dentry (or two) as a starting
Overview
--------
All filesystem operations require a dentry (or two) as a starting
point. Local applications have a reference-counted hold on suitable
dentrys via open file descriptors or cwd/root. However remote
dentries via open file descriptors or cwd/root. However remote
applications that access a filesystem via a remote filesystem protocol
such as NFS may not be able to hold such a reference, and so need a
different way to refer to a particular dentry. As the alternative
@@ -13,14 +16,14 @@ server-reboot (among other things, though these tend to be the most
problematic), there is no simple answer like 'filename'.
The mechanism discussed here allows each filesystem implementation to
specify how to generate an opaque (out side of the filesystem) byte
specify how to generate an opaque (outside of the filesystem) byte
string for any dentry, and how to find an appropriate dentry for any
given opaque byte string.
This byte string will be called a "filehandle fragment" as it
corresponds to part of an NFS filehandle.
A filesystem which supports the mapping between filehandle fragments
and dentrys will be termed "exportable".
and dentries will be termed "exportable".
@@ -89,11 +92,9 @@ For a filesystem to be exportable it must:
1/ provide the filehandle fragment routines described below.
2/ make sure that d_splice_alias is used rather than d_add
when ->lookup finds an inode for a given parent and name.
Typically the ->lookup routine will end:
if (inode)
return d_splice(inode, dentry);
d_add(dentry, inode);
return NULL;
Typically the ->lookup routine will end with a:
return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
}
@@ -101,67 +102,39 @@ For a filesystem to be exportable it must:
A file system implementation declares that instances of the filesystem
are exportable by setting the s_export_op field in the struct
super_block. This field must point to a "struct export_operations"
struct which could potentially be full of NULLs, though normally at
least get_parent will be set.
struct which has the following members:
The primary operations are decode_fh and encode_fh.
decode_fh takes a filehandle fragment and tries to find or create a
dentry for the object referred to by the filehandle.
encode_fh takes a dentry and creates a filehandle fragment which can
later be used to find/create a dentry for the same object.
encode_fh (optional)
Takes a dentry and creates a filehandle fragment which can later be used
to find or create a dentry for the same object. The default
implementation creates a filehandle fragment that encodes a 32bit inode
and generation number for the inode encoded, and if necessary the
same information for the parent.
decode_fh will probably make use of "find_exported_dentry".
This function lives in the "exportfs" module which a filesystem does
not need unless it is being exported. So rather that calling
find_exported_dentry directly, each filesystem should call it through
the find_exported_dentry pointer in it's export_operations table.
This field is set correctly by the exporting agent (e.g. nfsd) when a
filesystem is exported, and before any export operations are called.
fh_to_dentry (mandatory)
Given a filehandle fragment, this should find the implied object and
create a dentry for it (possibly with d_alloc_anon).
find_exported_dentry needs three support functions from the
filesystem:
get_name. When given a parent dentry and a child dentry, this
should find a name in the directory identified by the parent
dentry, which leads to the object identified by the child dentry.
If no get_name function is supplied, a default implementation is
provided which uses vfs_readdir to find potential names, and
matches inode numbers to find the correct match.
fh_to_parent (optional but strongly recommended)
Given a filehandle fragment, this should find the parent of the
implied object and create a dentry for it (possibly with d_alloc_anon).
May fail if the filehandle fragment is too small.
get_parent. When given a dentry for a directory, this should return
a dentry for the parent. Quite possibly the parent dentry will
have been allocated by d_alloc_anon.
The default get_parent function just returns an error so any
filehandle lookup that requires finding a parent will fail.
->lookup("..") is *not* used as a default as it can leave ".."
entries in the dcache which are too messy to work with.
get_parent (optional but strongly recommended)
When given a dentry for a directory, this should return a dentry for
the parent. Quite possibly the parent dentry will have been allocated
by d_alloc_anon. The default get_parent function just returns an error
so any filehandle lookup that requires finding a parent will fail.
->lookup("..") is *not* used as a default as it can leave ".." entries
in the dcache which are too messy to work with.
get_dentry. When given an opaque datum, this should find the
implied object and create a dentry for it (possibly with
d_alloc_anon).
The opaque datum is whatever is passed down by the decode_fh
function, and is often simply a fragment of the filehandle
fragment.
decode_fh passes two datums through find_exported_dentry. One that
should be used to identify the target object, and one that can be
used to identify the object's parent, should that be necessary.
The default get_dentry function assumes that the datum contains an
inode number and a generation number, and it attempts to get the
inode using "iget" and check it's validity by matching the
generation number. A filesystem should only depend on the default
if iget can safely be used this way.
If decode_fh and/or encode_fh are left as NULL, then default
implementations are used. These defaults are suitable for ext2 and
extremely similar filesystems (like ext3).
The default encode_fh creates a filehandle fragment from the inode
number and generation number of the target together with the inode
number and generation number of the parent (if the parent is
required).
The default decode_fh extract the target and parent datums from the
filehandle assuming the format used by the default encode_fh and
passed them to find_exported_dentry.
get_name (optional)
When given a parent dentry and a child dentry, this should find a name
in the directory identified by the parent dentry, which leads to the
object identified by the child dentry. If no get_name function is
supplied, a default implementation is provided which uses vfs_readdir
to find potential names, and matches inode numbers to find the correct
match.
A filehandle fragment consists of an array of 1 or more 4byte words,
@@ -172,5 +145,3 @@ generated by encode_fh, in which case it will have been padded with
nuls. Rather, the encode_fh routine should choose a "type" which
indicates the decode_fh how much of the filehandle is valid, and how
it should be interpreted.