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

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.

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'm 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 that fits

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 describe a

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

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 change