Re: fixing the vnode lifecycle

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> 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?
> Doesn't posix (more or less) require files to have inode numbers?

Sure, but what's that got to do with filehandles?  Is st_ino now
generated from a filehandle somehow rather than being the filesystem's
responsibility?

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