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SubjectRe: Getting the nfs_fh of a specific file/dir from the kernel
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:19:40PM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:16 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:13:01PM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 10:06 +0200, Menny Hamburger wrote:
> > > > We implement our own nfsd in user space - so the kernel nfsd (as well
> > > > as the lockd) are disabled.
> > > > We need the handle in order to associate a kernel file handle with our
> > > > own file id.
> > >
> > > Filehandles are not part of any API that is exported to userland.
> >
> > /proc/fs/nfsd/filehandle ???
>
> That is only the information needed by mountd. It should not be usable
> for opening random files etc.

Oh, right--I guess it only gives filehandles for export roots--I'd
missed that.

--b.
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