From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, andros@citi.umich.edu, bfields@citi.umich.edu,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: NFS4 crack\
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:02:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050923210212.GI7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF44652BAC.62275FD6-ON88257085.00709316-88257085.00727AFE@us.ibm.com>
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 01:50:26PM -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> It seems to me that the VFS interface is a lot better reason for nfsd to
> be special and be an in-kernel application. But so far, I haven't seen
> any argument that whatever nfsd needs out of VFS couldn't cleanly be added
> to a system call interface. You say people have actually looked into it
> and found that it has to be ugly; I just don't yet see why myself.
For one thing, you do *not* keep locks on directories across the syscall
boundary. Is that enough for you?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-23 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-18 10:21 NFS4 crack Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-18 14:36 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-19 10:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-19 13:04 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-19 13:35 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-19 13:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-19 14:07 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-19 14:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-19 17:13 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-19 17:16 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-19 21:57 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-19 22:11 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-20 0:17 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-19 18:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-19 18:53 ` William A.(Andy) Adamson
2005-09-19 18:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-19 22:04 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-19 19:01 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-19 19:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-19 20:31 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-20 12:49 ` Greg KH
2005-09-20 15:10 ` William A.(Andy) Adamson
2005-09-20 18:37 ` Neil Brown
2005-09-21 7:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-22 20:58 ` William A.(Andy) Adamson
2005-09-21 13:41 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-21 14:40 ` J. Bruce Fields
2005-09-22 16:28 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-22 16:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-22 17:38 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-22 17:52 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-09-22 18:07 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-22 21:08 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-23 12:17 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-23 20:50 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-23 21:02 ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-09-26 16:29 ` NFS4 crack\ Bryan Henderson
2005-09-26 17:13 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-22 21:48 ` NFS4 crack Nicholas Miell
2005-09-22 22:50 ` Greg Banks
2005-09-22 21:19 ` Bryan Henderson
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