linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 13/35] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support

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Date:	Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:53:22 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	Valerie Aurora <vaurora@...hat.com>
CC:	jblunck@...e.de, jamie@...reable.org, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/35] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Valerie Aurora wrote:
> I don't recall there being any technical reason not to look up the
> real inode number.  I just wrote it that we because I was lazy.  So I
> like returning the directory's d_ino better than a single magic
> number, but I'd at least like to try returning the real inode number
> too.

Note, "struct dirent" doesn't have d_dev, so you really can't return
the "real" inode number, that's on a different filesystem and just a
random number in the context of the the readdir in question.

Thanks,
Miklos
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