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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/26] ceph: nfs re-export support
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:46:54PM -0800, Sage Weil wrote:
> Basic NFS re-export support is included.  This mostly works.  However,
> Ceph's MDS design precludes the ability to generate a (small)
> filehandle that will be valid forever, so this is of limited utility.

So don't include it if it's broken by design.