Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/fs/tmpfs
To: None <jmmv@netbsd.org>
From: Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 11/05/2006 22:04:43
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?
-e.
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Elad Efrat