On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 22 May 2011 20:12:04 -0500 > Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Sun, 22 May 2011 07:59:38 -0400 >> > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> >> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 07:55:24AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: >> >> > This will never work properly with CIFS, as the protocol has no ability >> >> > whatsoever for looking up files by filehandle. It *might* be possible to >> >> > eventually do this with SMB2, but that remains to be seen. Shirish had done some experiments (and AFAIK has a small patch that fixed NFS export over CIFS which works, with the usual restrictions about having to return ESTALE if the NFS client tries to access an inode which has been flushed from the cache on the server side). >> For nfs v3 clients that can't handle ESTALE, we are probably >> stuck with having to wait for Samba to implement the flag > Flag? NTCreateX: FILE_OPEN_BY_FILE_ID IIRC Shirish verified that the Windows client will emit this flag, but their server had not gotten around to implementing it (although Samba could implement it now that their is an open-by-handle syscall). -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
