On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > >> Wouldn't you be better off by attempting to implement an "open > > >> by ino" operation and an operation to get the generation count > > >> for the file and then modifying the network protocol of interest > > >> to use these as identifiers for the file to be manipulated? > > >> > > > > > > You mean an "open by inode" on the userspace API? My guess, it > > > wouldn't get very far. > > > > This isn't a new idea and has been implemented on a variety of > > different systems. > > Like? XFS. 'man open_by_handle' Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - 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
