Re: [Gluster-devel] [fuse-devel] Feature proposal - FS-Cache support in FUSE

2014-09-11 Thread Anand Avati
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Anand Avati wrote: > > > > > This is something beyond the libfuse API. Unless the kernel/user ABI is > > modified to present the entire 128bits with each call (i.e, both nodeID + > > generation instead of j

Re: [Gluster-devel] [fuse-devel] Feature proposal - FS-Cache support in FUSE

2014-09-11 Thread Miklos Szeredi
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Anand Avati wrote: > > This is something beyond the libfuse API. Unless the kernel/user ABI is > modified to present the entire 128bits with each call (i.e, both nodeID + > generation instead of just nodeID) we are still bound to provide unique > 64bit nodeID (and

Re: [Gluster-devel] [fuse-devel] Feature proposal - FS-Cache support in FUSE

2014-09-10 Thread Anand Avati
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > >> This would be a challenge with any FUSE based filesystem which has > >> persistent filehandles larger than 64bit. > > Fuse does provide a total of 128bits of file handle identification > with nodeID + generation, with some of that numbe

Re: [Gluster-devel] [fuse-devel] Feature proposal - FS-Cache support in FUSE

2014-09-10 Thread Miklos Szeredi
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 08:20:35AM -0700, Anand Avati wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Vimal A R wrote: >> >> > Hello fuse-devel / fs-cache / gluster-devel lists, >> > >> > I would like to propose the idea of implementing FS-C