Re: [RFC 2/7] cramfs: create unique inode numbers

[JÃrn Engel]

On Sun, 1 June 2008 23:24:51 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 01 June 2008, JÃrn Engel wrote:
> > 
> > Couldn't this cause problems for NFS?  The same inode no longer has a
> > stable inode number across reboots.  Basing on dentry location can also
> > be an information leak and cause problems on 64bit machines with old
> > userspace.
> 
> Sorry if I was not clear with this: I meant dentry location on disk,
> not in memory. So the inode number is still stable across reboots and
> does not leak data, it is just different from before.

In that case I'd better retract my whole comment. ;)

JÃrn

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