"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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." Duh - that's a disappointment. Thanks for the pointer! Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C -- 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
