> Would the following also work?
> - have a 32 bit counter: set inode->i_ino to count++
That is exactly what iunique() does except that it also checks for
uniqueness and allows you to specify a minimum value. Sooner or later
your 32-bit counter will wrap round...
> - up the generation number each time the counter warps.
> Between boot cycles NFS could still get confused, that might be
> helped by setting the initial generation to the system time.
Yep. That is what the 'fat' filesystem does.
Cheers,
Trond
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