Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 23:22:06 -0700 From: Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current hangs during boot Message-ID: <20001022232206.B3583@lizzy.bugworks.com> In-Reply-To: <82240.972257916@verdi.nethelp.no>; from sthaug@nethelp.no on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:38:36AM %2B0200 References: <20001022193539.A38460@bsdwins.com> <82240.972257916@verdi.nethelp.no>
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:38:36AM +0200, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> Randomized file generation numbers to make NFS attacks more difficult,
> as far as I can remember.
From p. 315 of the "red devil book":
A generation number is assigned to an inode each time that the latter is
allocated to represent a new file.
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