Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: knfsd and system crashes | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:45:57 +0000 (GMT) |
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> The intent is to do a fast lookup based on the dentry most of the time, > but to be able to fall back to the unfsd-style volume search if > necessary. So to the extent that inode numbers are a reasonably
The "volume search" however is going to kick in all the time on a very loaded NFS server, exactly when it isnt desirable.
> permanent representation of a file, following a server crash the old > client filehandles could still be looked up, but more slowly.
Since you have the parent inode, surely we can use that and a faked /proc path of
/proc/dev/08:13/parent-inode/filename
in such cases
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