> I don't want to belabor the point, but I think you're questioning
> the sanity not just of NFS, but also of AFS and CIFS. They
> all use a filehandle or "fid" of some kind to identify a file
> on the server.
>
> Why is insane ?
It isnt. A lot of people look at NFS and assume since it has oddities pathnames
are magically clean. In fact path names turn up a pile of other horrors that
you want to avoid.
You want pathnames for some operations and its a good way to regenerate file
identities but you actually want a reliable file id. You want one that
survives reboots, logical volume management changes, HA multi-pathing,
volume relocation, ...
Our NFS one survives some but not all of that now.
Alan
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