From: Trent Lloyd <lathiat@bur.st>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: hostfs / current->fsuid
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:02:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040623060222.GE18570@thump.bur.st> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cbavp0$nss$1@sea.gmane.org>
Speed is not so much an issue.
Does anyone have any pointers on getting current->fsuid or equivalent to
get the uid of the calling user?
> >Yes, however NFS has a remarkable ability to fuck up locking more often
> >than not (at least on linux)
>
> beside that, i think that the network-protocol could have been designed
> much simpler and more firewall-friendly.
>
> BTW: i am one of those, that think that NFS is faster than hostfs.
> I cannot explain why, but i would guess, that - at least for parallel
> file-access - the networking-code required less context-switches, since
> the network-packets are perhaps queued before giving them to the
> host-system.
>
> That's just a guess, so you may prove me wrong ;-)
>
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-21 3:44 [uml-devel] hostfs / current->fsuid Trent Lloyd
2004-06-22 13:50 ` Cameron Patrick
2004-06-22 18:35 ` BlaisorBlade
2004-06-23 0:48 ` Trent Lloyd
2004-06-23 4:09 ` [uml-devel] " Sven Köhler
2004-06-23 6:02 ` Trent Lloyd [this message]
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