From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch 3/3] i_version update for ext4: user interface
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:52:08 -0700
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On Jan 23, 2007  18:24 +0100, Cordenner jean noel wrote:
> This patch adds a  ``st_i_version'' field in the stat
> structure, and modifies the stat(2) syscall accordingly. Currently the
> change is only visible on i386 and x86_64 archs.

What is the need for exporting i_version to userspace?

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.