Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:05:02 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/85503: panic: wrong dirclust using msdosfs in RELENG_6 Message-ID: <35359.1125659102@phk.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:47:15 %2B1000." <20050901201602.X99455@delplex.bde.org>
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In message <20050901201602.X99455@delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >So all current file systems need to generate unique 32-bit inode >numbers. This may be difficult, but once it is done I think the inode >number can be used as a key to pass to the hash functions. (The key >is bogusly named "hash" in the hash function args and in v_hash above.) Almost, but not quite correct: The hash and inode are not and can not be identical for remote filesystems like NFS. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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