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Subject: Re: problems with reiserfs + nfs using 2.4.2-pre4
To: neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au (Neil Brown)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 01:24:27 +0000 (GMT)
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>  This may seem like a lot, but several of these are already
>  requirements which most filesystems don't meet, and other are there
>  to tidy-up interfaces and make locking more straight forward.

As a 2.5 thing it sounds like a very sensible path. It will also provide
some of the operations groundwork needed for file systems that can only use
NFS4 temporary handles

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