RE: NFS V4 - FH -> pathname mapping

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From: Boris Zuckerman (boris@nextpoint.com)
Date: 03/25/97-10:36:46 AM Z


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From: Boris Zuckerman <boris@nextpoint.com>
Subject: RE: NFS V4 - FH -> pathname mapping
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:36:46 -0500



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From:	Carl Beame [SMTP:beame@homenet.ie]
My locking problem was only one example. Another might be that a
network analyst sees a termendous amount of traffic reading a specific
File Handle. How can he determine which file it is and make a decision
to possibly copy the file down to the clients? (Before anyone says it,
no he can't see the LOOKUP requests to get the file handle, there is
way too much traffic to be that specific). Does anyone else have
examples for the need to have a FH to PathName call?

Carl Beame
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It looks like a good and logical thing to do. Also in this case clients 
do not need to cache information about all parent directories (servers do 
this anyway) or perform back traversing with ".." lookups. So, here we are
speaking about general protocol simplification and efficiency. 

boris 


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