Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 6/9] fuse: add export operations | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Tue, 13 May 2008 10:27:56 +0200 |
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> > Only finding in-memory inodes for nfs export is quite dangerous. I > > think it would be a much better idea to support whatever upcalls are > > needed to find the object if it's not in memory. Without that the nfs > > exporting support is hardly useable. > > In the ODF version of unionfs, we store the inode numbers persistently in a > small /odf partition, exactly for that reason.
What do inode numbers index on that partition? A path? How do you garbage collect unused inode numbers?
> It'd be wonderful if there > was kernel support for persistent inode numbers that could be used by > various virtual filesystems.
Well, fuse for one doesn't need it because it's typically a function that is best pushed to userspace.
Miklos
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