Re: NFS4 crack

["William A.(Andy) Adamson" <andros@citi.umich.edu>]

> Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> >  Now, this in-kernel-application needs to store stable
> >  application-specific data somewhere.  May it:
> > 
> >   1/ open a directory and create files in it and write to them
> >   2/ open a directory and create files provided that the name of the
> >      directory is given by userspace
> >   3/ create files in a directory that was created by userspace and
> >      given to the knfsd application as a filedescriptor
> >   4/ write data to files which were created and opened by used-space
> >      based on filenames provided by knfsd (hostnames or equivalents in
> >      this case). 
> >   5/ pass the data to userspace and let it worry completely.
> >   6/ sorry, you cannot have application-specific state.
> > 
> 
> 5/ sounds good.  There are numerous options, newly including connector and
> configfs.

alright. i'll look into a user space solution.

-->Andy