Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:07:51 -0600
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inode generation numbers
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On Sep 09, 2003  21:08 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> for a user space nfs-daemon it would be helpful to get the inode generation 
> numbers. However it seems the fstat() from the glibc doesn't support this, 
> but refering to some google search fstat() from some (not all) other unixes 
> does.
> Does anyone know how to read those numbers from userspace with linux?

For ext2/ext3 filesystems you can use EXT2_GET_VERSION ioctl for this.
Maybe reiserfs as well.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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