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From: "John T. Kohl" <jtk@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Support for stackable file systems on top of nfs
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:13:17 -0500
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>>>>> "Erez" == Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> writes:

Erez> Will this work?  Will it give us the functionality we need?  Or would we
Erez> need a single page to possibly point back to a _chain_ of inodes (which
Erez> would start looking like Skinner's "pvnode" '93 idea)?

Also have a look at Heidemann's PhD thesis,
http://www.isi.edu:80/people/johnh/PAPERS/Heidemann95e.html

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John Kohl
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Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
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