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    SubjectRe: (reiserfs) reiserfs and knfsd and NFSv4 and volatile file handles
    Steve Dodd wrote:
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    > On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:31:00PM +0100, Olaf Kirch wrote:
    >
    > [..]
    > > 1. There are various standards out there that very much like
    > > "inode numbers" to be unique. Tools like tar will barf badly
    > > if they're not. Whether they're supposed to be stable is a
    > > different issue. Whether they are supposed to be just
    > > 32 bit is also an entirely different issue.
    >
    > Is there any chance of getting an API for user space that works in terms of
    > opaque keys of variable lengths, rather than inode numbers? It's a shame
    > something like this wasn't considered by however came up with the stat64, etc.
    > set of functions. Unfortunately glibc.info says ino_t has to be an arithmetic
    > type, so I can't see a way to do such a thing without extending the API. We
    > might even be able to satisfy the open-by-inode people with something like
    > this - or are there other problems with that?

    This is more than I have dared to ask for, but I would certainly love to see it.

    It is the right thing, in my opinion.

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