On Tue, 4 May 1999 23:14:55 -0400 (EDT), Alexander Viro
<viro@math.psu.edu> said:
> ;-/ I'm afraid that the whole scheme with calling iget() here is broken by
> design. You can get out with this kludge in case of ext2, but for
> NFS/NCPFS/SMBFS/CODA reexports, for anything FAT-derived, for ISOFS... Not
> going to work.
I know. This is a property of the NFS protocol itself, not just of the
implementation: you *must* have fixed-length file handles which persist
over reboot or you break the protocol. Sure, using iget() is ugly, but
it's not as if we have much choice here if we want to talk to anybody
else's NFS client stack.
--Stephen
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/