On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 01:38:36AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Randomized file generation numbers to make NFS attacks more difficult,
> as far as I can remember.

>From p. 315 of the "red devil book":

A generation number is assigned to an inode each time that the latter is
allocated to represent a new file.

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