>>>>> " " == Neil F Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:
> The important thing is that there needs to be a way to map
> between a "filehandle" of limited size (32 bytes for NFSv2) and
> a file. With ext2fs and similar, the inode number is used. I
> don't know if SMB supports a similar sort of handle.
> The UNFSD does it by using a hash of the path name and keeping
> a cache. It works 98% of the time.
The problem with SMBfs, VFAT and others is that the inode number is
generated on the fly, meaning that knfsd is usually going to have
problems with stale handles whenever a dentry falls out of the
fhcache.
Cheers,
Trond
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