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Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port
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Sergiu Ivanov |
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Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:02:20 +0300 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hello,
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:23:28AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 03:41:51PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
>
> > I also checked the implementation of fsys_forward in libdiskfs and
> > found that it returns EOPNOTSUPP. Since libdiskfs usually has all
> > necessary stuff implemented properly (as different from libnetfs and
> > libtrivfs), I'd say we can forget about this RPC as well.
>
> fsys_forward() is only implemented by translators that accept
> forwarding. For disk filesystems, that's probably never the case, so
> it's quite expected that libdiskfs doesn't handle it.
Since I have a rather vague understanding of the notion of
``forwarding'', I'll take your position as the true one, and remember
it for future use :-)
> The question is whether it makes sense ever to union-mount any of the
> translators supporting forwarding. That's probably not the case for the
> currently existing use cases of fsys_forward(), but I can't say that it
> will never ever be useful.
>
> So I stand by what I said before: If it seems trivial to forward it, do
> so; otherwise, ignore it.
OK. I'll try to forward the call completely.
Regards,
scolobb
- nfs, nfsd (was: Unionmount: proxying the control port), (continued)
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/07/11
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/07/12
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/07/13
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/07/13
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/07/18
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/07/10
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/07/11
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/07/11
- Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port,
Sergiu Ivanov <=
Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, Sergiu Ivanov, 2009/07/10
Re: Unionmount: proxying the control port, olafBuddenhagen, 2009/07/11