[OpenAFS] Re: why afs backup is so poorly supported

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:53:06 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Adam Megacz wrote:

> You're not the only one drooling over this possibility.  But it won't
> help much with the current namei/AFSIDat layout.

What problem do you have with it? It emulates open-by-inode-number with 
some metadata in the mode bits, basically.

That's oversimplification but it was designed to be efficient.