Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: NFS locking bug -- limited mtime resolution means nfs_lock() does not provide coherency guarantee | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 14 Sep 2000 00:08:19 +0200 |
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>>>>> " " == Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
> Steal a couple of bytes from what ?
From the 32-bit storage area currently allocated to i_generation on the on-disk ext2fs inode (as per Ted's suggestion). With current disk/computing speeds, you probably don't need the full 32 bits to offer a reasonable guarantee of inode number uniqueness.
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