On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 13:09 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > That surely doesn't make life any easier for filesystem developers, I > agree. From that point of view, all telldir cookies should end their > life at closedir time. For "rm -r" it would be sufficient if the nfs > client simply didn't seekdir at all. For "ls -lR", this would return > duplicate dentries.
Please go read the NFS spec. The only thing an NFS client has in order to read a directory is a READDIR operation that in essence takes a filehandle and a cookie as its arguments. Unless the server is able to return the entire rest of the directory in one RPC reply, the client needs to send a second READDIR operation with a cookie from the previous READDIR operation. The server is expected to return cookies for _each_ entry in the directory. That is a protocol limitation, not a client limitation. Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
