Re: How to provide proxy nodes

2008-08-26 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:31 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:30:56PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > What I wanted to say was that netfs_S_dir_lookup does not give the > > client retry notifications in case it encounters a symlink (except for > > the special ca

Re: How to provide proxy nodes

2008-08-25 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:30:56PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:13 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:11:08PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > The situation about starting the translator could possibly be > > > handled similarly to the way

Re: How to provide proxy nodes

2008-08-23 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:13 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:11:08PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:53 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > That's why I wonder whether we should do the further lookup in > > > nsmux, or just let the cl

Re: How to provide proxy nodes

2008-08-07 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:11:08PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:53 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:17:34PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:16 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's why I wonder whether we sh

Re: How to provide proxy nodes

2008-08-06 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:53 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:17:34PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:16 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The last step is to return the resulting translated node to the > > > client. Now I see two opt

Re: How to provide proxy nodes

2008-08-06 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:17:34PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:16 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The last step is to return the resulting translated node to the > > client. Now I see two options for that: Either we do the lookup with > > the remaining file name

Re: How to provide proxy nodes

2008-08-06 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:16 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 12:54:19PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > [...] To provide a response to requests of this type, nsmux has to > > create *virtual* nodes, mirroring the nodes in the real filesystem, > > and stack translato

Re: How to provide proxy nodes

2008-08-04 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 12:54:19PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > [...] To provide a response to requests of this type, nsmux has to > create *virtual* nodes, mirroring the nodes in the real filesystem, > and stack translators upon these virtual nodes. [...] > The main problem is how to create

How to provide proxy nodes

2008-08-04 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, I am working on nsmux, which is the translator implementing namespace-based translator selection. The main idea of this translator is using libnetfs to mirror a directory in the filesystem and provide the possibility to access files with special names, like 'file,,x', which means 'Give me f