From: Jason Keltz <jas@cse.yorku.ca>
Subject: Re: fsid question
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:57:34 -0400
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On 03/27/07 10:27, James Pearson wrote:
> 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>

That makes sense, but what is still not clear to me is why I can't have 
the system show me the existing fsid that it is using in the absence of 
a user-specified fsid.

Jason.

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