>>>"Roman V. Shaposhnick" said:
>
[...]
>
> From my point of view, the main problem of the knfsd is that it tries
> to do the filesystem's job instead of querying it by something like:
> dentry_to_fhandle
> fhandle_to_dentry
There are 3 different issues with this that I know of
1) Is there a unique way to describe a `file' with some `n' bit number.
2) Does fhandle alway point to the same `file' even after a reboot.
3) a) Does fhandle point to the same `file' after that `file' is renamed.
b) Is this true even after a reboot.
> Separate question is, what knfsd should do if fs does not provide those
> operations. Speaking for myself, I would suggest that the best way is
> just say that those filesystems are not exportable at all, but there can
> be some heuristic to solve this problem more flexible.
> Roman.
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G. Allen Morris III
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