On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 16:23, <casper....@sun.com> wrote: > > >>I understand you cannot lookup names by inode number in general, because >>that would present a security violation. Joe User should not be able to >>find the name of an item that's in a directory where he does not have >>permission. >> >> >> >>But, even if it can only be run by root, is there some way to lookup the >>name of an object based on inode number? > > Sure, that's typically how NFS works. > > The inode itself is not sufficient; an inode number might be recycled and > and old snapshot with the same inode number may refer to a different file.
No, a NFS client will not ask the NFS server for a name by sending the inode or NFS-handle. There is no need for a NFS client to do that. There is no way to get a name from an inode number. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
