Hi John,
. and .. are not stored on the server. They are dynamically
instantiated (faked) for both the kernel module and user-space ls
utilities.
Keep in mind that we don't keep track of ref counts accurately for
performance reasons.
One of the few places where pvfs diverges from a posix compliant FS.
thanks,
Murali

On 1/29/07, John Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,

Since pvfs does not support hard links, can you explain
how the . and .. directory entries are implemented?

Thanks,
John
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