Re: NFS Client patch

2001-07-20 Thread Chris Mason
On Friday, July 20, 2001 10:50:57 AM +0200 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> " " == Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The current code does rely on hidden knowledge of the filesytem > > on the server, and refuses to operate with any FS that does not >

Re: NFS Client patch

2001-07-20 Thread Hans Reiser
Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > " " == Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The current code does rely on hidden knowledge of the filesytem > > on the server, and refuses to operate with any FS that does not > > describe a position in a directory as an offset or hash tha

Re: NFS Client patch

2001-07-20 Thread Trond Myklebust
> " " == Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The current code does rely on hidden knowledge of the filesytem > on the server, and refuses to operate with any FS that does not > describe a position in a directory as an offset or hash that > fits into 32 or 64 bits. I

Re: NFS Client patch

2001-07-19 Thread Hans Reiser
Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > " " == Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, returning the last filename won't do much for filesystems > > that don't have any directory indexes, but that's besides the > > point. Could nfsv4 be better than it is? probably. Can we