Re: knfsd and system crashes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:45:57 +0000 (GMT)

> 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. So to the extent that inode numbers are a reasonably

The "volume search" however is going to kick in all the time on a very
loaded NFS server, exactly when it isnt desirable.

> permanent representation of a file, following a server crash the old
> client filehandles could still be looked up, but more slowly.

Since you have the parent inode, surely we can use that and a faked /proc
path of

/proc/dev/08:13/parent-inode/filename

in such cases