From: James Pearson <james-p@moving-picture.com>
Subject: Re: fsid question
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:27:06 +0100
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Jason Keltz wrote:

> Hi James.
> 
> Thanks for your message.
> 
> I'm not sure that I understand this though.  If the system is generating 
> an fsid for NFS exports in the absence of a user-specified fsid, then 
> changing the fsid and re-exporting the filesystem *should* essentially 
> confuse the client? How does one choose an fsid that is not already in 
> use on the system? I imagine there must be some way to list the 
> currently used fsids for exported filesystems.

See the thread starting at:

<http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=110295083427898&w=2>

James Pearson


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