On Sun, 1 June 2008 23:24:51 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sunday 01 June 2008, Jörn Engel wrote: > > > > Couldn't this cause problems for NFS? The same inode no longer has a > > stable inode number across reboots. Basing on dentry location can also > > be an information leak and cause problems on 64bit machines with old > > userspace. > > Sorry if I was not clear with this: I meant dentry location on disk, > not in memory. So the inode number is still stable across reboots and > does not leak data, it is just different from before. In that case I'd better retract my whole comment. ;) Jörn -- All art is but imitation of nature. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
