[OpenAFS] Re: Problems with reiserfs when start OpenAFS 1.2.11-fc1 Segmentation fault with kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Mon, 08 Mar 2004 16:15:49 -0500


On Thursday, March 04, 2004 18:17:42 -0500 Derrick J Brashear 
<shadow@dementia.org> wrote:

> Not that easy. Same issue as the cache has with reiser, IIRC. look in the
> archives about 2 years ago.

Actually, it's even worse than that.  reiserfs _has_ inodes; they just 
can't do the open-by-inode-number operation that we need.

tmpfs doesn't have inodes at all -- it's all dentries, and the only way to 
find them is by path traversal.