Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matthias Urlichs" <> | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:24:51 +0100 | Subject | Re: Linux-2.1.129.. not quite 2.2 yet, I hope. |
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Hi,
Oliver Xymoron: > > Why can't the device just be encoded in the filehandle? > Because the current scheme is based on the the client getting the original file handle (with the device information et al.) from mountd. Obviously, if you just cross a mount point on the server, the client doesn't actually mount the subvolume.
... or so it seems to me, but then I am not _that_ familiar with the innards of the NFS code, client or server.
-- Matthias Urlichs | noris network GmbH | smurf@noris.de | ICQ: 20193661
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