From: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:53:02 +0200
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On Tuesday, June 29, 2010, David Howells wrote:
> Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > Ah, great, so already there :) I was looking for st_gen, as it is called
> > that way on BSD. And as BSD already has it for a long time, shouldn't
> > linux use the BSD identifier?
> 
> Sure.  I guess you'd also want it to be a u64?

Hmm, as far as I can see, BSD has u32. I only need it to verify for recycled 
inodes and at least for me the probability of a recyled inode + 32 bit 
generation number that overflew to exactly the same value as the previous 
inode had would be sufficiently small.


Thanks a lot for your work on this,
Bernd
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