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Re: [nfsv4] Directory delegations, take 2

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@Sun.COM> Wed, 22 October 2003 16:40 UTC

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From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@Sun.COM>
To: "Noveck, Dave" <Dave.Noveck@netapp.com>
Cc: David.Robinson@Sun.COM, nfsv4@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [nfsv4] Directory delegations, take 2
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:35:13 -0700

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:38:24AM -0700, Noveck, Dave wrote:
>  
> > The purist in me would love to have directory delegations
> > be symmetric with file delegations, but I grant that the
> > complexity and recovery semantics of revoking a write
> > delegation can get really ugly.
> 
> The purist in me would like that symmetry as well and we're 
> not foreclosing it in some 4.x for x > 1, but I can't see
> us dealing with the all the issues in any reasonable 4.1
> time frame.

The "everything is a file" purists long ago gave up on directories as
files.  Directories may look like files on disk (or not), but they're
conceptually not just like files.

Cheers,

Nico
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