[Gluster-devel] explicit lookup of inods linked via readdirp

[Raghavendra Bhat]

Hi,

In fuse I saw, that as part of resolving a inode, an explicit lookup is 
done on it if the inode is found to be linked via readdirp (At the time 
of linking in readdirp, fuse sets a flag in the inode context). It is 
done because,  many xlators such as afr depend upon lookup call for many 
things such as healing.

But that logic is not there in gfapi. I am thinking of introducing that 
mechanism in gfapi as well, where as part of resolve it checks if the 
inode is linked from readdirp. And if so it will do an explicit lookup 
on that inode.

NOTE: It can be done in NFS server as well.

Please provide feedback.

Regards,
Raghavendra Bhat