On Wed, 9 Jul 1997 13:31:46 -0400 (EDT) 
 wonko@blackhole.arkham.net (Brian Hechinger ) wrote:

 > > fsirand(8) is a program that randomizes the inode generation numbers on
 > > ffs file systems.
 > 
 > and what exactly is the benefit of doing this??

To reduce the possibility of guessing a file generation number for purposes
of spoofing an NFS file handle.

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