Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2008 07:42:49 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 2/7] cramfs: create unique inode numbers |
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On Sun, 1 June 2008 23:24:51 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sunday 01 June 2008, Jörn 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. ;)
Jörn
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