[Gluster-devel] NetBSD FUSE and filehandles

Emmanuel Dreyfus manu at netbsd.org
Tue Apr 19 14:35:12 UTC 2016


On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 04:25:07PM +0200, Csaba Henk wrote:
> I also have a vague memory that in Linux VFS the file operations
> are dispatched to file objects in quite a pure oop manner (which
> suggests itself to practices like "storing the file handle identifier
> along with the file object"), while in traditional BSD VFS the file
> ops just get the vnode (from which modernization efforts departed
> to various degree across the recent BSD variants).

Yes, NetBSD VFS has not clue about upper representation of the file,
it just has a reference on the vnode. That one will be difficult to 
implement.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu at netbsd.org


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