On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 16:49, <casper....@sun.com> wrote: > > >>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. > > The NFS clients certainly version 2 and 3 only use the "file handle"; > the file handle can be decoded by the server. It filehandle does not > contain the name, only the FSid, the inode number and the generation. > > >>There is no way to get a name from an inode number. > > The nfs server knows how so it is clearly possible. It is not exported to > userland but the kernel can find a file by its inumber.
The nfs server can find the file but not the file _name_. inode is all that the NFS server needs, it does not need the file name if it has the inode number. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
