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Re: CVS commit: src/sys/fs/tmpfs



On 11/5/06, Elad Efrat <elad%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: jmmv
> Date:         Sun Nov  5 19:40:31 UTC 2006
>
> Modified Files:
>       src/sys/fs/tmpfs: tmpfs_subr.c
>
> Log Message:
> Randomly initialize the node's generation to make file handles less
> predictable.  This solves a problem that may appear when serving a tmpfs
> over NFS: if the server reboots, newly allocated files should have
> different file handles; otherwise the remote clients could access files
> they were not supposed to touch.

can you please provide a way to disable this, say with a sysctl knob?

Why?

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