On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:17:31AM +0530, Ashish Sangwan wrote: > Thanks for the clarification! > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 4:15 am NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 13 2018, Ashish Sangwan wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Our NFS filer can sometimes return same inode number for different directories. > > > > Why? > The NFS fileserver is handling file systems over different nodes at > the same time. > To the client however, we want to present with a single pseudo fsid > (sent as part of the getattr) so that submounts can be avoided. Out of curiosity, why do you want to avoid submounts? --b.