On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 01:31:45PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I haven't looked at the code in detail yet, but the real value add for > userspace nfs servers and similar would be globally unique handles. > This of course requires filesystem support, but having a way to export > the filesystem handle would also simplify nfsd a lot so that it doesn't > have to rely on hacked support to pass this in from userspace which > gets it from statfs, assuming f_fsid has parts of a uuid in it, or > blkid. > > This might be as simple as adding an s_uuid array to the superblock and > having some simple routines to iterate it, or we might make that > an export operation to allow a bit more flexibility. That might be a good thing. But the need for backwards-compatibility with the existing mechanisms may prevent any simplification, at least in the near term. --b. -- 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
