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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:56:40 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: "Peter J. Braam" <braam@clusterfs.com>
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Subject: Re: tmpfs, NFS, file handles
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"Peter J. Braam" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At present one can probably not run NFS (or InterMezzo) on top of
> tmpfs.
> 
> Is there a suggested solution for fh_to_dentry and dentry_to_fh for
> tmpfs?
> 
> An "iget" based solution might work but at present tmpfs inodes are
> not hashed.

I talked to neil brown about NFS and ramfs... he mentioned using
iunique()

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