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To: Trond Myklebust <trond@netapp.com>, Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
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Subject: readdir cookies
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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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How does the nfs client decide what directory cookies to return?  (As
the d_off field to readdir, for example).

I'd assumed it would return the server's cookie, but testing shows it
returns a simple integer sequence.

--b.