From: Der-Hua Liu (dhliu@solar.csie.ntu.edu.tw)
Date: 03/07/93 

From: dhliu@solar.csie.ntu.edu.tw (Der-Hua Liu)
Subject: 32 bytes file handle on xfs and ext2fs ??
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 07:14:21 GMT

To implement a stateless NFS file server on Linux , we need a file hanle
smaller or equal to 32 bytes.

        sizeof( file id + file system id ) <= 32

Note that the file id and file system id should be derived from file system
direcly. The file id & file system id should not change even after rebooting.
The file system should provide the following two functions:
        
        1. ip (inode pointer) -> file handle
        2. file handle -> ip
         
Is it possible ?