Stephen makes anti-streams work for NFS

Hans Reiser (reiser@ceic.com)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 20:27:53 +0000 (/etc/localtime)

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> Now, what we _could_ do is to provide a user-space library stub for
> other NFS clients which translates O_DIRECTORY() opens to a file into an
> open of something like "filename/.%%pseudodir%%", and have an NFS server
> which detects that pseudoname and munges it into an O_DIRECTORY open on
> the server side.
>
> See? Suddenly we are able to pass these calls over NFS while still
> doing something useful with local filesystem semantics.

Ok, neat, I buy that one.

So, "dirname/..body" opens dirname like it is a file, and the user space
library translates "dirname" to "dirname/..body" when it notices that the
underlying FS does not support overloading.

Thanks Stephen, I retract my remarks.

Hans

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