kern/85503: panic: wrong dirclust using msdosfs in RELENG_6

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Sep 2 11:05:07 GMT 2005


In message <20050901201602.X99455 at delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>So all current file systems need to generate unique 32-bit inode
>numbers.  This may be difficult, but once it is done I think the inode
>number can be used as a key to pass to the hash functions.  (The key
>is bogusly named "hash" in the hash function args and in v_hash above.)

Almost, but not quite correct:  The hash and inode are not and can
not be identical for remote filesystems like NFS.

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