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From: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, smfrench@gmail.com, jlayton@redhat.com,
	mcao@us.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
	sjayaraman@suse.de, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:07:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006292307.42440.bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100629200259.23196.81509.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Tuesday, June 29, 2010, David Howells wrote:
> Implement a pair of new system calls to provide extended and further
> extensible stat functions.

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.


Thanks,
Bernd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-29 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-29 20:02 [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions David Howells
2010-06-29 20:02 ` David Howells
2010-06-29 20:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const David Howells
2010-06-29 20:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] AFS: Use i_generation not i_version for the vnode uniquifier David Howells
2010-06-29 20:23 ` [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions Steve French
2010-06-29 20:23   ` Steve French
     [not found] ` <20100629200259.23196.81509.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 20:03   ` [PATCH 3/3] Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available David Howells
2010-06-29 20:03     ` David Howells
     [not found]     ` <20100629200315.23196.68742.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 22:13       ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-29 22:13         ` Ulrich Drepper
     [not found]         ` <AANLkTimSU_pCXW5zR8__Q3-fzgxwEUX8rPqLeZtPD_hX-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 22:33           ` Steve French
2010-06-29 22:33             ` Steve French
2010-06-29 22:36         ` David Howells
     [not found]           ` <26026.1277851016-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 22:48             ` Joel Becker
2010-06-29 22:48               ` Joel Becker
2010-06-29 22:48           ` Sage Weil
     [not found]           ` <20100629224844.GF4150-0Ol/1UON5C7fiIqoQl7HmA@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 23:29             ` David Howells
2010-06-29 23:29               ` David Howells
     [not found]               ` <32322.1277854192-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-07-01  1:12                 ` Joel Becker
2010-07-01  1:12                   ` Joel Becker
2010-06-30  8:20       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30  8:20         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-30  8:59         ` David Howells
2010-06-29 20:28   ` [PATCH 0/3] Extended file stat functions Trond Myklebust
2010-06-29 20:28     ` Trond Myklebust
2010-06-29 20:50     ` David Howells
     [not found] ` <AANLkTimIh9ZAasPnN5xxGxbupwkct7UihHcMe26r-MD7-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 20:41   ` David Howells
2010-06-29 20:41     ` David Howells
2010-06-29 21:07 ` Bernd Schubert [this message]
     [not found] ` <201006292307.42440.bernd.schubert-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 21:11   ` David Howells
2010-06-29 21:11     ` David Howells
     [not found]     ` <24517.1277845879-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-06-29 21:24       ` Bernd Schubert
2010-06-29 21:24         ` Bernd Schubert
2010-06-29 21:28         ` David Howells
2010-06-29 21:53           ` Bernd Schubert
2010-06-29 22:59           ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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