Using fuse for AFS/DFS (was Re: [OpenAFS-devel] openafs / opendfs collaboration)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:40:35PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> >  the kernel-part of fuse tells any kernel-level callers to
> >  "go away, come back later".
> > 
> >  obviously this gives time for the kernel-part to "wake up" the
> >  userspace daemon, obtain an answer, such that when the kernel-level
> >  caller _does_ come back, the information is available.
> 
> It doesn't do that and never did.  ERESTARTSYS is only returned if the
> operation is interrupted, and in that case the operation is restarted
> from scratch, the answer to the old request is never used.
 
 oh??

 *confused* - well that's good, then!  glad that's cleared up!
 
 [must contact you again about this when i have time]

> >  in a nutshell, inodes is an optimisation from a unix
> >  perspective: by providing an inode based interface, you are
> >  burdening _all_ filesystem implementers with that concept.
> 
> Yes.  However I think the burden on performance (nothing else), is
> justified by the better flexibility.

 i understand.

 l.