>>>>> " " == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
> -> st_dev in addition to ->st_ino. But what makes us use the same
> inumber,
> for fsck sake? We can easily generate unique ones, what's the
> problem? Sure thing, duplicating inumber will eat a lot of
> stuff, but why do it at all?
You have a tradeoff with between uniqueness and repeatability. Recall
why smbfs, vfat, ... cannot be exported using knfsd.
If you can't save these extra inode numbers to permanent storage,
you're going to break stuff.
Cheers,
Trond
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