Re: Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd)

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:29:06 +0000

On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 12:29:48PM -0500, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to Alan Cox:
> > NFS likes to work at the inode level and its awkward to get at that
> > [from user space]. If you could open by inode with some other stuff
> > from the kernel hooked and write a clone based UNFSD then probably
> > [knfsd would be unnecessary].
>
> Is there any reason why the superuser shouldn't be able to open by
> inode? This seems an obvious idea; perhaps there's also an obvious
> argument against it that I'm not seeing...

Is this really necessary?

I've always found UNFSD quite good and featureful, and I find the way it
resolves permissions based on path names very useful. (A feature KNFSD
does not have).

I thought the only downside to UNFSD was it's lack of threading, making
it slow for heavy use. A clone based version would fix this, no?

-- Jamie

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