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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:40:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6ad26edff71afa979ad715b906ed865@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120816053428.GA427@polynum.com>

> What is more bizarre, with my scheme, is how to implement the meaning
> of ".."? If classical clients have to be able to be used, the server
> must create a fake name (as the penultimate component of the
> dirpath), that triggers the correct answer from the server.

see defmnt.c:/^fixdotdotname for where this is handled by the kernel,
not the file server.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-16 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-03 17:18 tlaronde
2012-08-03 18:58 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-08-03 19:25   ` tlaronde
2012-08-03 21:08 ` Burton Samograd
2012-08-03 21:12   ` Kurt H Maier
2012-08-03 21:17     ` Burton Samograd
2012-08-04  6:13   ` tlaronde
2012-08-04 10:56     ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2012-08-04 15:00       ` tlaronde
2012-08-04 12:16 ` Nicolas Bercher
2012-08-04 15:20   ` tlaronde
2012-08-05 15:29     ` Charles Forsyth
2012-08-05 17:36       ` tlaronde
2012-08-15 16:04         ` Eugene Gorodinsky
2012-08-15 17:33           ` tlaronde
2012-08-15 20:09             ` Bakul Shah
2012-08-15 20:17               ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-15 21:00                 ` Bakul Shah
2012-08-16  1:38                   ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-16  4:06                     ` Bakul Shah
2012-08-16 13:45                       ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-15 21:27               ` tlaronde
2012-08-16  3:47                 ` Bakul Shah
2012-08-16  5:34                   ` tlaronde
2012-08-16 13:40                     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-08-16 15:41                       ` tlaronde
2012-08-16 16:06                         ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-16 16:28                           ` tlaronde
2012-08-16 15:59                       ` Bakul Shah
2012-08-16 16:31                         ` tlaronde
2012-08-16 16:48                         ` Burton Samograd
2012-08-16 17:02                 ` Eugene Gorodinsky
2012-08-16 19:48                   ` tlaronde
2012-08-16 20:11                     ` erik quanstrom
2012-08-17  6:48                       ` tlaronde
2012-08-17  7:48                         ` Lucio De Re
2012-08-20 15:17                           ` tlaronde

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