On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 20:23 -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shaya Potter writes:
> > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Erez Zadok wrote:
> > 
> > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nix writes:
> > >> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Erez Zadok stipulated:
> > >>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shaya Potter writes:
> > >>>> No Fist based file system really crosses mount points (This came up
> > >>>> years ago on the fistgen list).
> > >>>
> > >>> Not quite.  It's an option if you want to cross or not:
> > >>
> > >> Is it? How do you turn it on?
> > >
> > > You set
> > >
> > >   dynamic_inode_numbers=yes
> > >
> > 
> > does that do anything besides making it use iunique in fistgen?  
> 
> No.
> 
> > I ask, 
> > because one would think that one could still cross mount points without 
> > iunique, it just be increadibly screwed up if one hits the same inode # 
> > without the use of iunique?  But from my experince (though haven't tried 
> > in a while), is that when one crosses a mount point, there's nothing 
> > there.
> 
> We return -EXDEV if you try to cross w/o iunique.  There's no point in
> returning another inode w/ a conflicting inum: too many things will go
> terribly wrong.  It a'int worth it.

so it does do more :)

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