linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions

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Message-Id: <201006292353.02990.bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:53:02 +0200
From:	Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, smfrench@...il.com, jlayton@...hat.com,
	mcao@...ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org,
	sjayaraman@...e.de, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions

On Tuesday, June 29, 2010, David Howells wrote:
> Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm> wrote:
> > Ah, great, so already there :) I was looking for st_gen, as it is called
> > that way on BSD. And as BSD already has it for a long time, shouldn't
> > linux use the BSD identifier?
> 
> Sure.  I guess you'd also want it to be a u64?

Hmm, as far as I can see, BSD has u32. I only need it to verify for recycled 
inodes and at least for me the probability of a recyled inode + 32 bit 
generation number that overflew to exactly the same value as the previous 
inode had would be sufficiently small.


Thanks a lot for your work on this,
Bernd
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