On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:18 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> there is a dir.type and a dir.qid.type. i believe these are different.
> the comment above dir.type in /sys/include/libc.h says that it's
> system modified. and, e.g. /mail/fs shows up as from the mount
> driver. the instance is typically pretty big. the mount driver is
> pretty careful to count instances.
>
> ; ls -l /mail/fs
> --rw-rw-rw- M 105920 quanstro quanstro 0 Nov 30 10:17 /mail/fs/ctl
> d-r-xr-xr-x M 105920 quanstro quanstro 0 Nov 30 10:11 /mail/fs/mbox
>
That makes sense - any user space synthetic will have to be addressed
via mnt(3), so mnt(3) will assign/override type and instance data for
user space file servers as well as remote file servers. Thanks.
-eric
