On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 14:45 +0100, Tigran Mkrtchyan wrote: > I have a server which runs on top of hadoop. The problem with hadoop > is that there is no way to have persistent file handles. I am > currently working on a way to do that - either simulate them or add a > support for unique file id to hadoop. If linux client will support > volatile file handles then I can stop inventing some workarounds. So if we add a broken hack to the client then you can stop adding broken hacks to the server? Sounds like you will still have a broken hacky setup to me. The idea of adding file ids to hadoop sounds like a better solution. Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html