Bugtraq: Re: nfsbug, bugs

[martha () sol nstl gov (Martha Lanatte)]

> 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