Re: [Avf-fuse-dev] reuse an inode number after FORGET?

[Valient G. <vg...@po...>]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 01:06, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> > Is it safe to reuse an inode number for another file after a FORGET?  Or
> > can an inode number never be reused for another file until the
> > generation is incremented?
> 
> The rule is that it should not be reused until the generation is
> incremented.  Though this only has significance if the filesystem is
> exported through NFS.
> 


What happens to all the recently opened files when the generation number
is changed?  Is a FORGET issued for each one of them when the kernel
notices that the generation has changed?

What about a file that is still open, does it get closed and a
re-opened?

It isn't clear to me from reading the kernel source...

thanks,
Valient