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translate NFS filehandle -> pathname without ncheck inode?
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George Savvides
May 24, 2001, 2:27:28 AM5/24/01
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I need to extrapolate the pathname to a file from an NFS file handle.
What I have available are the regular NFS calls, as well as the
standard Unix/Linux filesystem commands. The only way to do this that I have
come up with so far is:
What I have available are the regular NFS calls, as well as the
standard Unix/Linux filesystem commands. The only way to do this that I have
come up with so far is:
-use GETATTR to get the file attributes corresponding to the file
handle from NFS
-figure out the inode from the file attributes
-run ncheck to resolve the pathname.
The problem is that ncheck is a prohibitively expensive operation
(takes forever), and the application that I need it for makes such
calls quite frequently. Are there any alternative ways to do this in Linux, Unix or BSD?
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