Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday March 12, jesper.juhl@gmail.com wrote: > >> On 12/03/2008, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> >>> What was the exported filesystem? >>> >>> >> XFS >> >> > > It's a bit of along shot, but could you try mounting the XFS file > system with > -o ikeep > > and see if it makes a difference. > > When you have "ikeep", I can find the code that increments the > generation number between different uses of the one inode number. > > When you have "noikeep" (which I think is the default) it doesn't keep > the inode of disk when deleted and so (presumably) needs generate a > random generation number for each use. But I cannot find the code > that does that. I'm probably not looking in the right place, but I > don't think it can hurt to try "-o ikeep". > > NeilBrown > Ok, I've unmounted and remounted with that option enabled (/proc/mounts confirms it's enabled). We'll see what happens.