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Re: fixing the vnode lifecycle



>> Expect some file systems to use  a key size != sizeof(ino_t) -- nfs
>> for example uses file handles up to 64 bytes.
> IIRC all file systems provide a filehandle generation routine,

There was a time when fh generation was needed only for the filesystem
to be NFS-exportable.  Is it now actually required for all filesystems?

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