From 990d6c2d7aee921e3bce22b2d6a750fd552262be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:43:26 +0530 Subject: vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support The syscall also return mount id which can be used to lookup file system specific information such as uuid in /proc//mountinfo Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- init/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index be788c0957d4..e72fa17fe559 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -287,6 +287,18 @@ config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available at . +config FHANDLE + bool "open by fhandle syscalls" + select EXPORTFS + help + If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to map + file names to handle and then later use the handle for + different file system operations. This is useful in implementing + userspace file servers, which now track files using handles instead + of names. The handle would remain the same even if file names + get renamed. Enables open_by_handle_at(2) and name_to_handle_at(2) + syscalls. + config TASKSTATS bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on NET -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b