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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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To: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, smfrench@gmail.com,
       jlayton@redhat.com, mcao@us.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:11:19 +0100
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Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Is there any chance we can use that chance and also add a field 
> 
> unsigned long long st_gen
> 
> to struct_ xstat? Inode generation numbers really would be useful for 
> userspace NFS servers and some fuse filesystems.

That would be st_inode_version (equivalent to i_generation internally).

David
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