On Mon, Sep 16 2013, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins_at_finestructure.net> wrote:
> I'm mostly just curious about the technical considerations of storing
> named pipes on NFS, assuming they are still only being used on a single
> machine.
Just FYI, from fifo(7):
A FIFO special file (a named pipe) is similar to a pipe, except
that it is accessed as part of the file system. It can be opened
by multiple processes for reading or writing. When processes are
exchanging data via the FIFO, the kernel passes all data inter‐
nally without writing it to the file system. Thus, the FIFO spe‐
cial file has no contents on the file system; the file system
entry merely serves as a reference point so that processes can
access the pipe using a name in the file system.
So I think there's no problem storing the fifos on NFS, which seems to
jive with my experience thus far.
jamie.
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