Piyush Shivam wrote: > I took a look at the changes w.r.t. the filehandle and the memory leaks; > looks good.
Thanks! Sam, were you looking at this stuff? Should I wait for you? > I guess I was simply curious about our assumptions/rules about accessing > operations across the nnode layer. My understanding so far has been that > anything in the NFS layer must always go via the nnodes for > data/metadata/state operations. This may be much stricter > interpretation, but it will be good to have a guideline regarding this. > The interesting thing about this case is that here we go from NFS to > nnodes to proxy I/O, and then again need to access vnode layer. The > question is that, in the context of NFS, once we have crossed the nnode > abstraction, do we again need to go through it for accessing the vnode > layer? Not a show stopper by any means as of now. I think that since this is a provider, it's fine for it to use the VOPs directly, and expect that to be simpler in most cases. Rob T
