On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 22:15 +0530, Manish Katiyar wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:28 PM, "Stanisław T. Findeisen" > <sf181257@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am writing my own NFSv3 server implementation (for userland). It is going > > to act as a bridge to some other, distributed filesystem. I am using RFC > > 1813 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1813) as reference. The RFC is talking > > about these constants: > > Hi Stanislaw, > > I don't know answer to your question. You might want to ask this on > linux fsdevel list. Adding Trond in cc who will definitely have the > answer to this. > > Thanks - > Manish > > > > > FSF_LINK > > FSF_SYMLINK > > FSF_HOMOGENEOUS > > FSF_CANSETTIME > > > > but it does not specify their values! > > > > In <linux/nfs3.h> they seem to be defined as: > > > > /* NFSv3 file system properties */ > > #define NFS3_FSF_LINK 0x0001 > > #define NFS3_FSF_SYMLINK 0x0002 > > #define NFS3_FSF_HOMOGENEOUS 0x0008 > > #define NFS3_FSF_CANSETTIME 0x0010 > > > > The question is: who defined them like that, any why? Is there any other > > source of information on this that I am missing, or is this a "common > > knowledge" that people just have? > > Those constants are defined in Section 3.3.19 (Page 86) of RFC1813: const FSF3_LINK = 0x0001; const FSF3_SYMLINK = 0x0002; const FSF3_HOMOGENEOUS = 0x0008; const FSF3_CANSETTIME = 0x0010; in other words they are specified in the NFSv3 protocol. I've no idea why they are referred to as "FSF_*" further down in the same section (instead of "FSF3_*"), but I suspect that is a typo. Cheers Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
