linux-kernel - Re: MS_I_VERSION added in 2.6.25

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Message-ID: <20090626171144.GA2282@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:11:44 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	mtk.manpages@...il.com
Cc:	jean-noel.cordenner@...l.net, tytso@....edu, cmm@...ibm.com,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
	mk <michael.kerrisk@...il.com>
Subject: Re: MS_I_VERSION added in 2.6.25

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:46:34AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Linux 2.6.25 added the MS_I_VERSION flag for inode versioning. Some
> text on this should be added to the mount(2) man page. Could someone
> of you provide a short description of
> 
> * What inode versions are used for

I don't think it should be documented.  It should never have been a
user-visible option to start with and I'm eventually going to fix that.

The correct way to do this would be a feature flag in the superblock.
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