From: bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)
To: Ashish Sangwan <ashishsangwan2@gmail.com>
Cc: neilb@suse.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Handling of duplicate inode numbers for the directories in the nfs v3 kernel client
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:33:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190110203320.GE15492@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOiN93=bh8WrCD8gZ+En4EfzTv2iHMn5n4w5=rYJOr6RbUkCKQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:17:31AM +0530, Ashish Sangwan wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification!
>
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 4:15 am NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 13 2018, Ashish Sangwan wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Our NFS filer can sometimes return same inode number for different directories.
> >
> > Why?
> The NFS fileserver is handling file systems over different nodes at
> the same time.
> To the client however, we want to present with a single pseudo fsid
> (sent as part of the getattr) so that submounts can be avoided.
Out of curiosity, why do you want to avoid submounts?
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-10 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-12 18:57 Handling of duplicate inode numbers for the directories in the nfs v3 kernel client Ashish Sangwan
2018-12-12 22:45 ` NeilBrown
2018-12-13 3:47 ` Ashish Sangwan
2018-12-13 3:55 ` NeilBrown
2019-01-10 20:33 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2019-01-26 8:39 ` Ashish Sangwan
2018-12-13 16:26 ` Frank Filz
2018-12-14 5:11 ` Ashish Sangwan
2018-12-17 11:06 ` Jeff Layton
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