Messages in this thread | | | From | (Zygo Blaxell) | Subject | Re: [RFC] inode generation numbers. | Date | 24 Feb 1999 01:28:07 -0500 |
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In article <199902230349.TAA12593@sodium.transmeta.com>, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com> wrote: >If we could do it in a way that the NFS filehandles remain the same >going from 2.2 to 2.3 for at least ext2, it would be ideal, I think. > >Having all of your filehandles go south on you just because your Linux >NFS server was upgraded should happen as rarely as possible (never is >best, but I agree that we need to add the generation number, and I >don't know if we can add it without breaking filehandles once).
Gee, Sun didn't seem to think twice about doing that.
Are knfsd filehandles actually compatible with the old user-space NFS server filehandles? If not then the point is moot I think...we've broken NFS anyway.
-- Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation, zygob@corel.ca (work), zblaxell@furryterror.org (play). It's my opinion, I tell you! Mine! All MINE! Size of 'diff -Nurw [...] winehq corel' as of Wed Feb 24 00:14:00 EST 1999 Lines/files: In 38 / 1, Out 8716 / 121, Both 8679 / 120
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