On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 07:12 +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> 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?
File deletions...
Cheers
Trond
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