In message <20080506042117.GA29298@xxxxxxxxxx>, Bharata B Rao writes: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:08:41PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > > > Before anything further is discussed I need to know how you expect to > > handle NFS? I don't see how, with a userlevel readdir implementation, > > you can support NFS. > > At the client side, I don't see a problem with unioning NFS with other > FS. Kernel would still return all dirents of the union including those > from NFS and glibc readdir would be able to handle them appropriately. > Or am I missing something ? > > At the server side, I can't see how NFS server could export a union. > I don't see how this could be sanely done with Union Mount. Erez, how > does Unionfs handle this ? [...] The ODF version of unionfs stores, among other things, persistent inode numbers in a small/special /odf partition. If the inums aren't persistent, they could get flushed out of memory, making it very difficult to reconstruct the inode w/ the same inum later on. Erez. -- 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
