nfsd and file handles

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:11:47AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:17:15PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> > The best situation would be if the file handle could be easily
> > avoided, on which matter I cannot comment right away without a deeper
> > investigation of nfsd.  I think that avoiding file handles is worth
> > the effort, but then I remember your words about a second level of
> > directory structure to support NFS, which means that the effort might
> > be pointless due to the fact that a file-handle-like structure is
> > inherently necessary.
> 
> Indeed, I don't think it's likely that it can be avoided -- or otherwise
> it wouldn't have been added in the first place...

Maybe I should try to mail somebody who is more involved with nfsd
matters than we are (like Thomas Bushnell)?

Regards,
scolobb