>From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
>> Probably an extension of the xfs_fsr approach would be the way to
>> go. One major issue is it is impossible to do this without changing
>> inode numbers. Some applications rely on inode numbers remaining a
>> constant.
>
>But none I know do this over umount/remount (ok except for NFS stateless
>filehandles, but that can be cured by remounting on the client too)
Hierarchical Storage Managers (HSMs)--the things that use DMAPI--may very well
expect filehandles to be valid across reboots (the DMAPI spec supports this
expectation).
Dean
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