On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:55:16PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > The basic idea of generation numbers is to check if an inode was > recycled, so only if the tuple of inode-number and generation-number > matches we still have the same file. Kernel nfs NFS does not and should not look at the inode generation. Except for a bit of legacy code for the old pre-Linux 2.4 filehandles it looks at the opaque file handle returned and only interpreted by the filesystem. Any userspace NFS server should do the same. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html