On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:06:09AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > >if vnode -> name translation is really necessary, it should be
> > >implemented in upper layers.  (caller of VOPs, not filesystems.)
> > 
> > how? can you please elaborate?
> 
> something similar to what linux and dragonflybsd do.

The latter would mean separating the namespace topology from the vnode
topology, which should help for the layered filesystem issues.

Joerg