nnpfs usage

[Tomas Olsson]

christopher at 0x90.org writes:

> I am still not sure if it matters that second level directories are a
> different cell than the root, I was trying to emulate the regular afs
> behavior of /afs/cell.hostname.tld/
>
Don't think so, nnpfs doesn't care much about what's in the fid, it's just
a number. In general.

> Can anyone explain why the root node needs an inode number >0 in the
> dirent directory files, yet passing anything to nnpfs OTHER THAN ZERO
> causes problems?
>
Well, for nnpfs it's part of the protocol. Can't think of any valid reason
why, though. Dunno about the inode numbers. Is it the kernel or nnpfs that
gets confused?

/Tomas