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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Latchesar Ionkov <lionkov@lanl.gov>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	Rob Ross <rross@mcs.anl.gov>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
	Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>, Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	Gary Grider <ggrider@lanl.gov>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:12:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061205221205.GB1988@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f158dc670612050855w196c71c9sa9527e69f6b40b94@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 05:55:14PM +0100, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
> What is your opinion on giving the file system an option to lookup a
> file more than one name/directory at a time? I think that all remote
> file systems can benefit from that?

Do you mean something like the 4.4BSD namei interface where the VOP_LOOKUP
routine get the entire remaining path and is allowed to resolve as much of
it as it can (or wants)?

While this allows remote filesystems to optimize deep tree traversals it
creates a pretty big mess about state that is kept on lookup operations.

For Linux in particular it would mean doing large parts of __link_path_walk
in the filesystem, which I can't thing of a sane way to do.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-05 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 124+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-28  4:34 NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Gary Grider
2006-11-28  5:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-28 10:54   ` Andreas Dilger
2006-11-28 11:28     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-11-28 20:17     ` Russell Cattelan
2006-11-28 23:28     ` Wendy Cheng
2006-11-29  9:12       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-29  9:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-29  9:14     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-29  9:48     ` Andreas Dilger
2006-11-29 10:18       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-11-29  8:26         ` Brad Boyer
2006-11-30  9:25           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-30 17:49             ` Sage Weil
2006-12-01  5:26               ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-01  7:08                 ` Sage Weil
2006-12-01 14:41                   ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-01 16:47                     ` Sage Weil
2006-12-01 18:07                       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-01 18:42                         ` Sage Weil
2006-12-01 19:13                           ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-01 20:32                             ` Sage Weil
2006-12-04 18:02                           ` Peter Staubach
2006-12-05 23:20                             ` readdirplus() as possible POSIX I/O API Sage Weil
2006-12-06 15:48                               ` Peter Staubach
2006-12-03  1:57                         ` NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Andreas Dilger
2006-12-03  7:34                           ` Kari Hurtta
2006-12-03  1:52                     ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-03 16:10                       ` Sage Weil
2006-12-04  7:32                         ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-04 15:15                           ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05  0:59                             ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05  4:44                               ` Gary Grider
2006-12-05 10:05                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-05  5:56                               ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 10:07                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-05 14:20                                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-06 15:04                                     ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 15:44                                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-06 16:15                                         ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05 14:55                                   ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 22:11                                     ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05 23:24                                       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-06 16:42                                         ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 12:22                                     ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2006-12-06 15:14                                       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 16:55                                   ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-05 22:12                                     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-12-06 23:12                                       ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-06 23:33                                         ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 21:50                                   ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05 22:05                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-05 23:18                                       ` Sage Weil
2006-12-05 23:55                                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-06 10:06                                         ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-06 17:19                                           ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-06 17:27                                             ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 17:42                                               ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-06 18:01                                                 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2006-12-06 18:13                                                   ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-17 14:41                                                     ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2006-12-17 19:07                                                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-17 19:38                                                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-17 21:51                                                           ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-18  2:57                                                             ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2006-12-18  3:54                                                               ` Gary Grider
2006-12-07  5:57                                                 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-15 22:37                                                   ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-16 18:13                                                     ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-16 19:08                                                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-14 23:58                                         ` statlite() Rob Ross
2006-12-07 23:39                                       ` NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Nikita Danilov
2006-12-05 14:37                               ` Peter Staubach
2006-12-05 10:26                             ` readdirplus() as possible POSIX I/O API Andreas Dilger
2006-12-05 15:23                               ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-06 10:28                                 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-06 15:10                                   ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-05 17:06                               ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-05 22:48                                 ` Rob Ross
2006-11-29 10:25       ` NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Steven Whitehouse
2006-11-30 12:29         ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-01 15:52       ` Ric Wheeler
2006-11-29 12:23     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-29 12:35       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-11-29 16:26         ` Gary Grider
2006-11-29 17:18           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-29 12:39       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-01 22:29         ` Rob Ross
2006-12-02  2:35           ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-05  0:37             ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05 10:02               ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-05 16:47               ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-05 17:01                 ` Matthew Wilcox
     [not found]                   ` <f158dc670612050909m366594c5ubaa87d9a9ecc8c2a@mail.gmail.com>
2006-12-05 17:10                     ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-05 17:39                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-05 21:55                       ` Rob Ross
2006-12-05 21:50                   ` Peter Staubach
2006-12-05 21:44                 ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 11:01                   ` openg Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-06 15:41                     ` openg Trond Myklebust
2006-12-06 15:42                     ` openg Rob Ross
2006-12-06 23:32                       ` openg Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-14 23:36                         ` openg Rob Ross
2006-12-06 23:25                   ` Re: NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-06  9:48                 ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 15:53                   ` openg and path_to_handle Rob Ross
2006-12-06 16:04                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-06 16:20                       ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 20:57                         ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 20:40                     ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 20:50                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-06 21:09                         ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 22:09                         ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-06 22:17                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-06 22:41                             ` Andreas Dilger
2006-12-06 23:39                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-14 22:52                             ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 20:50                       ` Rob Ross
2006-12-06 21:01                         ` David Chinner
2006-12-06 23:19                     ` Latchesar Ionkov
2006-12-14 21:00                       ` Rob Ross
2006-12-14 21:20                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-14 23:02                           ` Rob Ross
2006-11-28 15:08 ` NFSv4/pNFS possible POSIX I/O API standards Matthew Wilcox

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