Re: [Question] mount points on knfsd.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:31:26 +0100 (BST)


> server wants to export. The fact that Sun does it brokenly, requiring
> the clients to be aware of details that should be internal to the
> server, is no reason to perpetualize the error, IMNSHO.

knfsd uses inode numbers as part of its (still insecure fix in 2.3 ;))
NFS file handle numbering scheme. So you may get the same handle for
two files (or at least an unresolvable collision)

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