Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-50,: Re: nfs patch for NetApp snapshot

# Re: nfs patch for NetApp snapshot

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 11:55:37 +1300

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(not answering your question, but asking another)

On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 03:01:39PM -0500, I Lee Hetherington wrote:

> Why is the IS_ROOT(...) there at all?

Why do we have a specail hardcoded case for '.snapshot' files? I
probably don't know enough about how NetApps work, but this seems
rather unusual... why is this magic required to make this work?

-cw

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