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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/7] cramfs: create unique inode numbers
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 07:42:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080602054240.GA19219@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806012324.51734.arnd@arndb.de>

On Sun, 1 June 2008 23:24:51 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 01 June 2008, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > 
> > Couldn't this cause problems for NFS?  The same inode no longer has a
> > stable inode number across reboots.  Basing on dentry location can also
> > be an information leak and cause problems on 64bit machines with old
> > userspace.
> 
> Sorry if I was not clear with this: I meant dentry location on disk,
> not in memory. So the inode number is still stable across reboots and
> does not leak data, it is just different from before.

In that case I'd better retract my whole comment. ;)

Jörn

-- 
All art is but imitation of nature.
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-02  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080531152013.031903990@arndb.de>
2008-05-31 15:20 ` [RFC 1/7] cramfs: allow remount rw arnd
2008-05-31 15:20 ` [RFC 2/7] cramfs: create unique inode numbers arnd
2008-06-01 16:50   ` Jörn Engel
2008-06-01 21:24     ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-02  5:42       ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2008-05-31 15:20 ` [RFC 3/7] cramfs: allow unlinking of files arnd
2008-06-01 16:54   ` Jörn Engel
2008-06-01 21:28     ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-31 15:20 ` [RFC 4/7] cramfs: allow rmdir arnd
2008-05-31 15:20 ` [RFC 5/7] cramfs: allow writing to existing files arnd
2008-05-31 15:20 ` [RFC 6/7] cramfs: read directory entries from dcache arnd
2008-05-31 15:20 ` [RFC 7/7] cramfs: add missing inode operations arnd

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