From: Miklos Szeredi Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/35] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:53:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1271372682-21225-10-git-send-email-vaurora@redhat.com> <1271372682-21225-11-git-send-email-vaurora@redhat.com> <1271372682-21225-12-git-send-email-vaurora@redhat.com> <1271372682-21225-13-git-send-email-vaurora@redhat.com> <1271372682-21225-14-git-send-email-vaurora@redhat.com> <20100419124025.GG10776@bolzano.suse.de> <1271682168.14748.718.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20100419132344.GI10776@bolzano.suse.de> <20100419133028.GA3631@shareable.org> <20100419141248.GK10776@bolzano.suse.de> <20100419142315.GA2688@shell> Cc: jblunck@suse.de, jamie@shareable.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Valerie Aurora Return-path: In-reply-to: <20100419142315.GA2688@shell> (message from Valerie Aurora on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:23:15 -0400) Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Valerie Aurora wrote: > I don't recall there being any technical reason not to look up the > real inode number. I just wrote it that we because I was lazy. So I > like returning the directory's d_ino better than a single magic > number, but I'd at least like to try returning the real inode number > too. Note, "struct dirent" doesn't have d_dev, so you really can't return the "real" inode number, that's on a different filesystem and just a random number in the context of the the readdir in question. Thanks, Miklos