Miklos Szeredi wrote:
- for mount ID's use IDA (from the IDR library) instead of a 32bit
  counter, which could overflow

IDAs tend to get reused quickly, which can cause race conditions. Any reason not to just use a 64-bit counter?

        -hpa
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