The following reply was made to PR kern/31944; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/31944
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 00:10:13 +0000

 On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:50:02AM +0000, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/31944; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84@gmail.com>
 > To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/31944
 > Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:47:21 +0100
 > 
 >  > 1. tmpfs doesn't free tmpfs_nodes until unmount.
 >  
 >  This is because, once a node has been created, tmpfs needs to keep its id
 >  and generation number so that if the same node is reused it carries the same
 >  generation number.
 
 Maybe use 64bit inode numbers ?
 Or do something similar to the way process ids are allocated to avoid reusing
 number quickly.
 
 After all only NFS exports can (or rather will) open files using the file-id
 based on inode+generation number.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk