Re: knfsd and system crashes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:07:13 +0000 (GMT)


> This would seem to indicate i_version is a critical secret,
> perhaps something that should be generated from /dev/urandom
> and updated in a similar manner instead of the ++ in use now.

Modern BSD systems use a host specific secret to perturb the handle