[HEADS-UP] Using stored immutable file birth time for SMB File-ID

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Jun 26 20:55:40 UTC 2019


On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 03:57:46PM +0200, Ralph Boehme wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> in short:
> 
> Samba will adapt a new File-ID generation scheme, based on a file's initial
> creation date instead of using the file's inode number.

This looks like a good change to me. Decoupling the
inode from the FileID returned to the client is a
good idea, and may help us with problems with sub-mounts
being exported from the same share (I think we're
already good here, but I like this solution better).



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