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At 08:35 AM 9/2/00 -0400, Joseph Mack wrote:
>On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Wayne wrote:
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>> It will not work for NFS. NFS is working based on server
>> hand over an opaque packet to the client. Client since
>> then will communicate with the server based on that opaque
>> handle. Normal NFS construct that opaque handle involves
>> some file system ID from that particular server, which most
>> likely will be different from one server to the other.
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>in principle this could be handled by generating the filehandle
>from the path/filename which would be the same on all systems?
It could be done like that. But if the hard drive SCSI ID is
different that could cause system uses different file system ID
assigned to the file system, and end up stalled handle.
>Joe
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>Joseph Mack mack@xxxxxxxxxxx
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