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- From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: What do NFS clients expect from NFS servers
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:59:08
- Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information
- Processing (VTT/TIK)
- Lines: 19
- Message-ID: <TML.92Nov17185908@tiuhti.tik.vtt.fi>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: tiuhti.tik.vtt.fi
-
- I am writing a program that mounts itself as a NFS server and answers
- incoming RPC calls by making AFP calls to an AppleTalk file server.
- (Don't ask for the code yet, it's not ready.) (Do tell me if this
- kind of program is already available free.)
-
- What kind of assumptions does the NFS client code in UNIX kernels (I
- run HP-UX 8.07, if that matters) make on the replies it gets? Does it
- get upset if the root of the mounted file system isn't "inode"
- (fileid) 2? What if several files happen to have the same fileid, but
- still have link count = 1? Must the link count of a directory be
- identical to the number of subdirectories + 2? Does it matter if
- directory sizes are reported as zero? Etc.
-
- (My testing so far seems to indicate that the kernel doesn't much care
- for these details, but I would like to be sure.)
- --
- Tor Lillqvist,
- working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland,
- Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK).
-