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On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:04:43PM +0200, Elad Efrat wrote:
> > 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.
>=20
> can you please provide a way to disable this, say with a sysctl knob?

Why?  Even without the generation number randomisation to avoid
accidental collisions, there is no way for a program to depend upon
any kind of stability of inode numbers across reboots. =20

For what purpose would you wish to use such a knob?

--
Dan.

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