linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Have inodes have unique inode numbers

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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:00:04 -0500
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, LKML
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Linux Trace Devel <linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Ajay Kaher
 <ajay.kaher@...adcom.com>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
 linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Have inodes have unique inode numbers

On 2024-01-26 17:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 14:41, Mathieu Desnoyers
> <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, there is even a note about stat.st_size in inode(7) explaining
>> this:
> 
> Good. Send a patch to do the same for st_ino.

This breaks "cp -aH" and "cp -aL". Even setting st_nlink={0,1}
does not help there, from coreutils 9.1:

copy_internal():

[...]
   else if (x->preserve_links
            && !x->hard_link
            && (1 < src_sb.st_nlink
                || (command_line_arg
                    && x->dereference == DEREF_COMMAND_LINE_ARGUMENTS)
                || x->dereference == DEREF_ALWAYS))
     {
       earlier_file = remember_copied (dst_relname,
                                       src_sb.st_ino, src_sb.st_dev);
     }

Thanks,

Mathieu


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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
https://www.efficios.com