Hello!
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:22:14PM -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> When Linux added the export ID, at a time when other operating systems
> were addressing the problem with the kind of fsid you're proposing, I
> believe the point was that in Linux you can have multiple incompatible
> exports of the same filesystem -- to give a client the right data, you'd
> need to know from which export, not just which filesystem, a given
> filehandle came.
Well, I do not see how there is a difference.
>From my reading of the code it seems that fsid is composed of device's
minor/major and export point's inode ino.
I propose to replace (if supported by fs) device's minor/major by
some unique number returned by fs itself.
Should be no worse than what we have now.
Bye,
Oleg
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