On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Neil Brown wrote:
knfsd can get answers to such questions as:
- can you support NFSD_FH_LOCATABLE
- is file name comparison case insensitive (will be needed for NFSv4)
Sorry, but does it mean that NFSv4 passes (by standard definition)
filenames only in UTF8
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Erez Zadok wrote:
On a related note, since we do have /proc/mounts, and assuming that procfs
is pretty much necessary nowadays, are we going to get rid of /etc/mtab and
completely move all getmntent info into the kernel? I never liked the fact
that people doing mounts
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Erez Zadok wrote:
On a related note, since we do have /proc/mounts, and assuming that procfs
is pretty much necessary nowadays, are we going to get rid of /etc/mtab and
completely move all getmntent info into the kernel? I
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:15:32PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
while we are on the subject of obsoleting /etc/mtab in favour of
/proc/mounts (or enhanced version thereof), please keep in mind the
classical problem of "mount -o loop" stopping to work if you use
/proc/mounts. I think Andries
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Erez Zadok wrote:
Hey, we can make it yet another ioctl(2). Then we can trade a crapload of
syscalls for a crapload of ioctls --- a time-honored Unix tradition... :-)
:-)
Seriously, an open/read/.../close would work fine, but on what file? If
it's something inside
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
Alexander Viro writes:
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Erez Zadok wrote:
Hey, we can make it yet another ioctl(2). Then we can trade a crapload of
syscalls for a crapload of ioctls --- a time-honored Unix tradition... :-)
:-)
Alexander Viro writes:
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
- mount procfs on boot :-
- modify init(8) to not need /dev/tty (which would be a pity, because
session management before starting boot scripts is damn handy)
- put all the virtual filesystems under a (known,
