Yes. However, at that point I'm more than happy to say that "oh, f*ck,
exporting vfat doesn't survive a server crash"
The reason? At that point it's a conceptual issue. We have other
filesystems that will act the same (smbfs comes to mind), where the inode
number simply isn't "unique enough" to be used as a NFS server
re-population mechanism. And they may break if/when a dentry is dropped
for some other reason even without a crash
I'd argue that exporting filesystems like that over NFS is a thing that
should work, but you shouldn't consider them to be something you have to
get all the details 100% right for. vfat/smbfs have other "non-unix"
behaviour anyway, let's not worry about cornercases.
Linus
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