Jason Thorpe drunkenly mumbled...
> 
>  > > fsirand(8) is a program that randomizes the inode generation numbers on
>  > > ffs file systems.
>  > 
>  > and what exactly is the benefit of doing this??
> 
> To reduce the possibility of guessing a file generation number for purposes
> of spoofing an NFS file handle.

ah, ok, thanks.

-brian

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