Subject: Re: metahook(9)
To: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/15/2006 09:26:31
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:10:22PM +0200, Elad Efrat wrote:
> YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>=20
> > - "inode" is a filesystem dependent term.
>=20
> Is there an alternative? if not, this is what it'll use and file-systems
> that can't offer an inode entity are simply not supported.

As Martin notes, you should use file handles. They are the "portable"=20
format of inode numbers. And with network file systems, you really can't=20
use anything else.

Think about stale file handles, and why you don't want veriexec and other=
=20
things to ignore a situation that would give a stale file handle error.

Take care,

Bill

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