From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: "Tayade, Nilesh" <Nilesh.Tayade@netscout.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to get the file path from file handle - NFS.
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 12:01:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100909160106.GE8597@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3F292ADF945FB49B35E96C94C2061B90D1991A4-2s2rCY1e8UXHBhWB4kaBDUEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 08:24:40AM -0400, Tayade, Nilesh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seek some pointers on how to obtain the file path from the file
> handle. The NFS protocol exchange the file handle between the Server and
> Client.
> I want to extract the file path at client side from the available file
> handle.
>
> I went through some of the reference documents. It say-
> The mapping exists in /var/nfs/fhpath or /etc/default/nfslogd files. And
> can be configured through /etc/nfs/nfslog.conf.
> http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/nfs/ch14_06.htm
Looks like a Solaris thing? This isn't the right list for that.
--b.
>
> But essentially I am looking forward extracting it through application C
> code (may be getting the pointer to the hash table etc.)- the reason
> being I want to avoid file open, read operations (on the nfslogd file)
> due to performance issue.
>
> Could someone please advice if it is possible to extract it through some
> structure? Can we directly try to read the mapping hash table at client
> side?
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Nilesh
> x46222
> Yahoo IM: nilesh_tayade85
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2010-09-09 12:24 How to get the file path from file handle - NFS Tayade, Nilesh
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