Re: tmpfs, NFS, file handles

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 11:56:40 EST

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"Peter J. Braam" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> At present one can probably not run NFS (or InterMezzo) on top of
> tmpfs.
>
> Is there a suggested solution for fh_to_dentry and dentry_to_fh for
> tmpfs?
>
> An "iget" based solution might work but at present tmpfs inodes are
> not hashed.

I talked to neil brown about NFS and ramfs... he mentioned using
iunique()

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