> The intent is to do a fast lookup based on the dentry most of the time,
> but to be able to fall back to the unfsd-style volume search if
> necessary.
I had the impression that unfsd maintained a table of sent file
handles and a pointer to the actual file. The problem with this
approach is that clients complain if the server crashes or resets. Is
this what you are thinking to do, or are you providing a way to go
from the inode number to the file?
> But of course Linux-based servers aren't going to crash :-)
Heh. We sometimes need to reset some of our nfs server for other
reasons and this is the reason for not having Linux machines replace
all of our solaris hosts yet.
best wishes,
Miguel.