> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > >> Wouldn't you be better off by attempting to implement an "open > > > >> by ino" operation and an operation to get the generation count > > > >> for the file and then modifying the network protocol of interest > > > >> to use these as identifiers for the file to be manipulated? > > > >> > > > > > > > > You mean an "open by inode" on the userspace API? My guess, it > > > > wouldn't get very far. > > > > > > This isn't a new idea and has been implemented on a variety of > > > different systems. > > > > Like? > > XFS. > > 'man open_by_handle'
Doesn't seem widely used, with 600 something google hits. And in this old thread Linus is not entirely enthusiastic about the concept: http://lkml.org/lkml/1999/1/11/244 Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
