On Tuesday April 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is that it is extremely hard to come up with an alternative > that doesn't impose new conditions on what filesystems you can support.
I seem to remember Hans Reiser making a credible suggestion years ago when NFSv4 was still in draft. It didn't fly, but I don't really remember why. The NFS server gets to either return a cookie like it currently does, or sets a flag (or maybe returns a special cookie) which says 'just use the name'. A READDIR request contains either a cookie or a filename. Either mean "This identifies the last name I got from you, give me the next one". Is there something that makes that interface problematic? NeilBrown - 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/