Re: [SSI] SSI and process migration

[Aneesh K. K.V <ane...@di...>]

Hi, 

  Does this mean that i will be able to migrate only if i have a
consistent inode number for the directories across nodes . I mean only
if I have a cluster file system ? 

 -aneesh 


On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 03:16, Brian J. Watson wrote:
> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" wrote:
> > *********** Here i have a doubt what is export_dirs doing ******
> 
> It packages the process' cwd and root directory. It may be a bit
> confusing since it not only packages the pathname of each directory, but
> also the clusterwide device number and vfsmount ID of its filesystem,
> and the inode number, generation number, and parent inode number of the
> directory. The purpose of all this stuff is to gracefully handle a
> rename / migrate race. Alas, the import code to handle this race has not
> been implemented, yet.
> 
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