Re: Handling of duplicate inode numbers for the directories in the nfs v3 kernel client

J. Bruce Fields
2019-01-10T20:33:21Z

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:17:31AM +0530, Ashish Sangwan wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification!
>
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, 4:15 am NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 13 2018, Ashish Sangwan wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Our NFS filer can sometimes return same inode number for different directories.
> >
> > Why?
> The NFS fileserver is handling file systems over different nodes at
> the same time.
> To the client however, we want to present with a single pseudo fsid
> (sent as part of the getattr) so that submounts can be avoided.

Out of curiosity, why do you want to avoid submounts?

--b.