On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 07:12 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday April 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The problem is that it is extremely hard to come up with an alternative > > that doesn't impose new conditions on what filesystems you can support. > > I seem to remember Hans Reiser making a credible suggestion years ago > when NFSv4 was still in draft. It didn't fly, but I don't really > remember why. > > The NFS server gets to either return a cookie like it currently does, > or sets a flag (or maybe returns a special cookie) which says 'just > use the name'. > A READDIR request contains either a cookie or a filename. Either mean > "This identifies the last name I got from you, give me the next one". > > Is there something that makes that interface problematic?
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