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author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2007-10-21 16:42:19 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-22 08:13:21 -0700 |
commit | e38f981758118d829cd40cfe9c09e3fa81e422aa (patch) | |
tree | 73a071109999b31697925ca7a4336f3d4beeef21 /include/linux | |
parent | 39655164405940d4818224a085e35420e2f97aed (diff) |
exportfs: update documentation
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/exportfs.h | 26 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/exportfs.h b/include/linux/exportfs.h index 0b4a771b490..51d21413881 100644 --- a/include/linux/exportfs.h +++ b/include/linux/exportfs.h @@ -55,30 +55,8 @@ struct fid { * @get_parent: find the parent of a given directory * @get_dentry: find a dentry for the inode given a file handle sub-fragment * - * Description: - * The export_operations structure provides a means for nfsd to communicate - * with a particular exported file system - particularly enabling nfsd and - * the filesystem to co-operate when dealing with file handles. - * - * export_operations contains two basic operation for dealing with file - * handles, decode_fh() and encode_fh(), and allows for some other - * operations to be defined which standard helper routines use to get - * specific information from the filesystem. - * - * nfsd encodes information use to determine which filesystem a filehandle - * applies to in the initial part of the file handle. The remainder, termed - * a file handle fragment, is controlled completely by the filesystem. The - * standard helper routines assume that this fragment will contain one or - * two sub-fragments, one which identifies the file, and one which may be - * used to identify the (a) directory containing the file. - * - * In some situations, nfsd needs to get a dentry which is connected into a - * specific part of the file tree. To allow for this, it passes the - * function acceptable() together with a @context which can be used to see - * if the dentry is acceptable. As there can be multiple dentrys for a - * given file, the filesystem should check each one for acceptability before - * looking for the next. As soon as an acceptable one is found, it should - * be returned. + * See Documentation/filesystems/Exporting for details on how to use + * this interface correctly. * * encode_fh: * @encode_fh should store in the file handle fragment @fh (using at most |