Re: [Netnice-kernels] Linux NNFS API nearing completion

[Scott B. <sco...@ve...>]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Takashi Okumura wrote:

> thanks. it is interesting that output of pwd is a bit differs from FreeBSD'pwd.
> in this case, FreeBSD will show
> 
> 	$ cd /nnfs/procs/1911/sockets/3/
> 	$ ls
> 	lo eth1
> 	$ cd lo
> 	$ pwd
> 	/nnfs/network/lo/vif1
> 
> anyway. your operation (follow_link?) also looks fine. this is okay. thanks.
>

Yes, I will try and fix this. I think I need to change the way I use the 
Linux vfs internal function vfs_follow_link.

 

> > >  - Directory: /nnfs/network/lo
> > >
> > >         mkdir of VIF dir:               OK
> > >         rmdir of VIF dir:               NG?
> > >                 directory not empty error.
> > >

> 
> this operation suggests that we can remove the files under vif1, right?
> which does not make sense to me, since we cannot remove such properties
> from a VIF. on FreeBSD, we implemented that rmdir can simply remove
> the entire VIF directory. exception is that, if the VIF has a child VIF.
> is is hard to implement that way on linux??
> 

This makes sense.  I will try and fix rmdir to work this way.


Thanks,

Scott Brumbaugh