On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:51:45AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>
> So this is a really stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway. If you
> just need a cookie, is there any way that you might be able to steal a
> few bits from i_generation field for that purpose? (This assumes that
> we only worry about solving the problem for NFS.)
No, it does not help. i_generation is only in the NFS file handle, but not
in the fattr/file id this is used for cache checks. The NFS file handle
has to stay identical anyways, as long as the inode is not deleted/reused.
-Andi
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