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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:29:45PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> 
> is i_version an on disk think?  didn't realize that and just assumed it
> was in in core thing.  I wouldn't have an issue sending i_version to the
> userspace scanner for them to use as they like.
> 

It's on-disk for some filesystems, in order to support NFsv4 advanced
caching semantics (which means i_version has to survive a reboot,
which means it has to be on disk).  It is *not* on disk for ext3,
although it is for ext4.

					- Ted
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