> there are some really good reasons for using dentries: a _sane_ network
> filesystem will do everything based on an explicit pathname, and this
> "filehandle" crap that NFS uses is only another breakage of NFS (and
> traditional UNIX's inability to handle pathnames during IO).
I don't want to belabor the point, but I think you're questioning
the sanity not just of NFS, but also of AFS and CIFS. They
all use a filehandle or "fid" of some kind to identify a file
on the server.
Why is insane ?
Brent
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