Re: If not readdir() then what?

On Tuesday April 10, [email protected] wrote:
> The problem is that it is extremely hard to come up with an alternative
> that doesn't impose new conditions on what filesystems you can support.

I seem to remember Hans Reiser making a credible suggestion years ago
when NFSv4 was still in draft.  It didn't fly, but I don't really
remember why.

The NFS server gets to either return a cookie like it currently does,
or sets a flag (or maybe returns a special cookie) which says 'just
use the name'.
A READDIR request contains either a cookie or a filename.  Either mean
"This identifies the last name I got from you, give me the next one".

Is there something that makes that interface problematic?

NeilBrown
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