Re: [9fans] implmenting /mnt/9/clone

[Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On 7/29/05, Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> 
> I'm playing around with the p9p ramfs server, and was wondering about the
> best way to implement a file for clone.
> 
> e.g. I have /mnt/9/clone, and when clone is opened, I want to to mean that
> /mnt/9/1/ctl is created and fid for that file returned to client, and the
> next open of clone gets /mnt/9/2/ctl, etc. As usual, a read of the ctl
> would return the # for that ctl file.
> 

One small problem I've noticed with v9fs and clone style file systems
(in particular ACME) -- make sure things like stat don't trigger the
creation of the resource, otherwise things like ls -l will end up
creating windows, etc.  I haven't found a good way around this from a
Linux perspective.

          -eric