nfsv4 server patches and status

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:22:05AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> The inode numbers would be stable for the life of the tmpfs filesystem,
> but they could easily change on reboot (or if a dir was removed
> and recreated).
>
> If that's unacceptable then tmpfs is probably not
> usable for this, especially if we can't really use volatile fh's.
> 
> Back to pondering other options :-)

Well, maybe we could create an nfspseudofs that was a minor variant on
tmpfs but that used something like a hash of the path name for the
filehandle?

Neil has also suggested using symlinks in the pseudofilesystem instead
of bind mounts:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=117330705619509&w=2

I'm not sure.

--b.