On 4/10/06, UZAIR LAKHANI <uzairr_bs1b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <snip> > In order for client and server to communicate, they > have to exchange different structures like > super-block, inode, dentry, vfsmount etc. We have to > use 2.6.x kernels but since different versions of > kernel will have differnt sizes for these structures, > I am getting problems in communicating these > structures b/w client and server. I therefore want a > machine and kernel independent way for communicating > these structures so as to handle the sizes problem. > As Martin Jambor already gave some good points for structure size problems among different machines and I just want to add one more thing: Why are you going to transfer superblock, inodes, dentries etc ? I think you just need to transfer the information necessary (meta-data) (like permissions, directory structure etc) between client/server besides the actual file data. And for this you need to create a proper protocol which you actually send as a payload in TCP/IP or other protocol packet (you can get idea from NFS's protocol) I hope this helps -- Fawad Lateef - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
