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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:29:45 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?
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NFS4 still assumes that a file handle can be used to
find a file; neither the persistent nor the volatile
variants are directly comparable to a Qid and both can
complicate implementation.  (at least a volatile file handle
allows a file system implementation not based on inodes to be
done more easily than previously.) 9P uses fids instead,
which aren't coupled to Qids, with a lifetime limited
to at most a single session (and more usually they are explicitly clunked).