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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:40:22 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem
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> 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