On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:55:16PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
The basic idea of generation numbers is to check if an inode was
recycled, so only if the tuple of inode-number and generation-number
matches we still have the same file. Kernel nfs
NFS does not and should not look at the inode generation. Except for a
bit of legacy code for the old pre-Linux 2.4 filehandles it looks at the
opaque file handle returned and only interpreted by the filesystem. Any
userspace NFS server should do the same.