> > Only finding in-memory inodes for nfs export is quite dangerous. I > > think it would be a much better idea to support whatever upcalls are > > needed to find the object if it's not in memory. Without that the nfs > > exporting support is hardly useable. > > In the ODF version of unionfs, we store the inode numbers persistently in a > small /odf partition, exactly for that reason. What do inode numbers index on that partition? A path? How do you garbage collect unused inode numbers? > It'd be wonderful if there > was kernel support for persistent inode numbers that could be used by > various virtual filesystems. Well, fuse for one doesn't need it because it's typically a function that is best pushed to userspace. Miklos -- 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
