Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:43:18 +0100 | | From | Jens Benecke <> | | Subject | Re: NFS exported Samba mountpoint = invisible? |
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 08:58:09PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > >>>>> " " == Neil F Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes: > > The important thing is that there needs to be a way to map between > > a "filehandle" of limited size (32 bytes for NFSv2) and a file. > > With ext2fs and similar, the inode number is used. I don't know > > if SMB supports a similar sort of handle. > > The UNFSD does it by using a hash of the path name and keeping a > > cache. It works 98% of the time. > The problem with SMBfs, VFAT and others is that the inode number is > generated on the fly, meaning that knfsd is usually going to have > problems with stale handles whenever a dentry falls out of the fhcache.
Thanks for the info. At least now I know why it does not work how I expected. :)
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