On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 06:34:49AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > this resurrects parts of an old series to add open by handle support to > NFS. The prime intent here is to support the actual open by handle > ioctls, although it will also allow very crude re-exporting. Without > the other patches from Jeff's series that re-exporting will suck badly > though. Why do we want this? Any re-export support is going to have some major limitations. (No file locking, and re-export of NFSv4 probably not possible?) Last I heard the only motivation was extremely specific to Primary Data's setup. I'm happy to help them, but I think we need *some* evidence this will be useful to upstream users. --b. -- 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
