On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:17:43AM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Does NFS4 still depend on inode generation numbers? I understand that > earlier NFS versions used file handles based on inode and generation > number, but it seems to me that this shouldn't be required anymore with > the (stateful) NFS4. Yes, it's true that NFSv4 has open and close operations, but filehandles are still used a great deal outside of that, and clients are still allowed to assume that the same filehandle always refers to the same object. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3530.txt, section 4.2.1: "If two filehandles from the same server are equal, they MUST refer to the same file." --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
