Re: Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd)

Magnus Ahltorp (map@stacken.kth.se)
12 Jan 1999 01:58:13 +0100

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> Umm.. Other filesystems have other requirements. smbfs cannot do any FS
> operations without knowing the name of the file, for example. That
> _should_ be true of other network filesystems too, but I'm afraid that 25
> years of UNIX has made some people forget what is sane and what is easily
> done in UNIX.

1) Really early versions of AFS/Vice used "open by path". This was
thrown out. Things screwed up when doing rename on a directory.
2) Why should open_by_handle work for smbfs?

/Magnus
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