On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 00:17 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > The biggest problem I see is that UBIFS does not really support > telldir() > and seekdir(). > Directory offsets in UBIFS are plain hash values, so > telldir()/seekdir() won't > correctly work if UBIFS faces hash collisions. > Currently UBIFS implements a hack which stores the UBIFS dent object > into > file->private_data such that consecutive readdir()s are guaranteed to > work. > A comment on UBIFS's readdir states: > * This means that UBIFS cannot support NFS which requires full > * 'seekdir()'/'telldir()' support. Richard, I do not remember much about NFS support. I can only say that I never really put efforts into this, unfortunately. Here is an old discussion which could give you some more hints: http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfsv4&m=126480082613293&w=2 Artem. -- 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
