On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:09:58PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote: > AFAIK this means the "fuse" kernel module needs to implement support for > |VOP_FID()| and (optionally) allow FUSE userland drivers to implement > this functionality... right ?
Yes. At the very least it has to for NFSv2 and NFSv3. The NFSv4 protocol allows servers to issue something called "volatile filehandles" to workaround the lack of open-by-inode (or even lack of inode numbers altogether -- FAT was, IIUC, the motivation for volatile FHs). The Solaris NFSv4 server does not support volatile filehandles. Nico --
