Re: How about we just let all inode numbers on FAT be zero?

G. Allen Morris III (gam3@harpo.ixlabs.com)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:36:54 -0800

>>>Linus Torvalds said:
> > Linus, I'm afraid that we'll break nfsd that way. OTOH if somebody
> > exports FAT filesystem via NFS...
>
> knfsd would actually get this right, because it uses dentries.
>

But would break on a server crash. knfsd uses inodes if it can't
find the dentry.

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G. Allen Morris III

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