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- From: m.abbott@eleceng.ucl.ac.uk (Mark Abbott)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: CAP6.1 and Publish and Subscribe
- Message-ID: <1992Sep03.084812.28167@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 08:48:12 GMT
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- In article <CKD.92Sep2142014@loiosh.eff.org> Christopher Davis,
- ckd@eff.org writes:
- >This is probably a naive suggestion, since I have not attempted to grok
- >the aufs code, but what about a .macdirid file in each directory? That
- >way even moving your directory across filesystems won't kill you...
-
- Very true, and probably the thing to do. However, if you have multiple
- Aufs servers that share filespace, e.g. /home shared between several
- machines using NFS, then you need a central DirID issuing process for
- your shared filespace. This process also needs to be able to convert
- from DirIDs back into Unix pathnames. It strikes me that this is the
- major problem since you can happily move directories and the converting
- process will know nothing about it. It'd take somebody with more Unix
- programming experience than me to arrive at a robust & portable solution !
-