Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd) | From | Magnus Ahltorp <> | Date | 12 Jan 1999 01:58:13 +0100 |
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> Umm.. Other filesystems have other requirements. smbfs cannot do any FS > operations without knowing the name of the file, for example. That > _should_ be true of other network filesystems too, but I'm afraid that 25 > years of UNIX has made some people forget what is sane and what is easily > done in UNIX.
1) Really early versions of AFS/Vice used "open by path". This was thrown out. Things screwed up when doing rename on a directory. 2) Why should open_by_handle work for smbfs?
/Magnus map@stacken.kth.se
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