Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751465AbVICPB4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:01:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751008AbVICPB4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:01:56 -0400 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.204]:3220 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750967AbVICPBz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Sep 2005 11:01:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HU56B6yuN7WEbUJLD80cx99IL2cjHOGnUacXjdG4m/RN6CRHeSAYaGBERgpGXahEGz2mfMPg0ofxVKZPO4hzmbF3H5uAZtIzSJ/20xrqki4zek7Yq1jBYB1fEE9ulOsW74ECklfEEVn+oT/VRD1mXGKMAbDHf2RgPLNJlo2itd0= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 10:01:49 -0500 From: Eric Van Hensbergen Reply-To: ericvh@gmail.com To: Miklos Szeredi Subject: Re: FUSE merging? Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050902153440.309d41a5.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1005 Lines: 24 On 9/3/05, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > While FUSE doesn't handle it directly, doesn't it have to punt it to > > its network file systems, how to the sshfs and what not handle this > > sort of mapping? > > Sshfs handles it by not handling it. In this case it is neither > possible, nor needed to be able to correctly map the id space. > > Yes, it may confuse the user. It may even confuse the kernel for > sticky directories(*). But basically it just works, and is very > simple. > In principal, Plan 9 file servers handle permission checking server-side, so we could likewise punt -- but it seemed a good idea to have some form of mapping for directory listings (and things like sticky directories) to make sense. -eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/