[918] in bugtraq
Re: nfsbug, bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martha Lanatte)
Mon Feb 6 18:50:59 1995
From: martha@sol.nstl.gov (Martha Lanatte)
To: newsham@aloha.net (Timothy Newsham)
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 15:43:23 -0600 (CST)
Cc: martha@sol.nstl.gov, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <m0rbL1i-000a0nC@hookomo> from "Timothy Newsham" at Feb 5, 95 06:26:14 pm
> The best you can do is get a non-broken fsirand and rerun it on
> your system. This will randomize the numbers nfs uses for file handles.
> After doing this any system currently accessing filesystems exported
> from your host will have to remount to get valid file handles.
By non-broken, do you mean one that does not use the same seed for each
randomizaton, or something complete different?
> How can you use the filehandle? You could stick it in a variable
> and pass it off to nfs to request operations be done on the file
> associated with the handle.
Anyone care to elaborate?
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Martha Lanatte martha@sol.nstl.gov
System Administrator National Soil Tilth Laboratories
