On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:04:43PM +0200, Elad Efrat wrote: > > Randomly initialize the node's generation to make file handles less > > predictable. This solves a problem that may appear when serving a tmpfs > > over NFS: if the server reboots, newly allocated files should have > > different file handles; otherwise the remote clients could access files > > they were not supposed to touch. > > can you please provide a way to disable this, say with a sysctl knob? Why? Even without the generation number randomisation to avoid accidental collisions, there is no way for a program to depend upon any kind of stability of inode numbers across reboots. For what purpose would you wish to use such a knob? -- Dan.
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