From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Bernd Schubert
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Subject: Re: Extended file stat: Splitting file- and fs-specific info?
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 08:05:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120509120544.GA17535@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAA5B24.1020306-mPn0NPGs4xGatNDF+KUbs4QuADTiUCJX@public.gmane.org>
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:55:16PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> The basic idea of generation numbers is to check if an inode was
> recycled, so only if the tuple of inode-number and generation-number
> matches we still have the same file. Kernel nfs
NFS does not and should not look at the inode generation. Except for a
bit of legacy code for the old pre-Linux 2.4 filehandles it looks at the
opaque file handle returned and only interpreted by the filesystem. Any
userspace NFS server should do the same.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-09 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 14:05 [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call David Howells
2012-04-19 14:06 ` [PATCH 3/6] xstat: AFS: Return extended attributes David Howells
2012-04-19 14:06 ` [PATCH 4/6] xstat: NFS: " David Howells
[not found] ` <20120419140653.17272.95035.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-19 14:35 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-26 13:52 ` David Howells
2012-04-19 14:07 ` [PATCH 5/6] xstat: CIFS: " David Howells
[not found] ` <20120419140706.17272.72290.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-19 15:19 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <20120419140558.17272.74360.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-19 14:06 ` [PATCH 1/6] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available David Howells
2012-04-19 23:36 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <20120419140612.17272.57774.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-24 21:29 ` J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <20120424212911.GA26073-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-24 22:08 ` Steve French
2012-04-25 14:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-04-26 13:45 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <18765.1335447954-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 14:28 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-26 17:06 ` Steve French
2012-04-26 13:32 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <18195.1335447156-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-27 0:51 ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-27 3:11 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-04-26 13:40 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <18533.1335447617-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 14:23 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-19 14:06 ` [PATCH 2/6] xstat: Ext4: Return extended attributes David Howells
[not found] ` <20120419140625.17272.23303.stgit-S6HVgzuS8uM4Awkfq6JHfwNdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-19 16:03 ` Steve French
2012-04-26 13:47 ` David Howells
2012-04-26 17:00 ` Steve French
2012-04-19 14:07 ` [PATCH 6/6] xstat: eCryptFS: " David Howells
2012-04-19 17:11 ` [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call Steve French
2012-04-27 1:06 ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-27 3:22 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <ED5B8F1B-6C99-4516-85FA-A767E94B635F-m1MBpc4rdrD3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-28 0:38 ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-28 0:54 ` Steve French
2012-05-08 20:19 ` Extended file stat: Splitting file- and fs-specific info? David Howells
2012-05-08 21:13 ` Myklebust, Trond
[not found] ` <16281.1336508382-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 0:24 ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-09 1:09 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-05-09 4:25 ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-09 11:14 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-05-09 1:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-05-10 9:23 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <14477.1336641794-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-10 16:05 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-05-10 17:10 ` Roland McGrath
2012-05-11 8:54 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-05-09 9:21 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <20170.1336555274-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 11:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20120509111958.GA11345-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 11:55 ` Bernd Schubert
[not found] ` <4FAA5B24.1020306-mPn0NPGs4xGatNDF+KUbs4QuADTiUCJX@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 12:05 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
[not found] ` <20120509120544.GA17535-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-09 12:25 ` Bernd Schubert
2012-05-09 13:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-05-09 14:12 ` Bernd Schubert
2012-05-10 9:14 ` David Howells
2012-04-19 16:32 ` [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call Roland McGrath
2012-04-19 21:51 ` Paul Eggert
2012-04-19 23:05 ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-26 14:16 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <20173.1335449760-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 18:22 ` Roland McGrath
[not found] ` <4F9088D6.9020203-764C0pRuGfqVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 14:04 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <19638.1335449047-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 18:24 ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-19 23:29 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-04-26 13:54 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <19184.1335448455-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 18:25 ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-27 23:54 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <20120426182524.E5ADF2C0EC-j1d2VQoJOwwHfwO+Tb3JRVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 21:54 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <9931.1335477281-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 22:02 ` Roland McGrath
2012-04-26 22:21 ` Nix
2012-04-26 14:25 ` David Howells
2012-04-26 14:54 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5mv1Lijdwk5zsQwYJr4Etb6fhrRyNXm-iFCQX+HecboGrQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 15:25 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-26 16:56 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5mt5af-_hxBRKK72iD5Gr99bo91ec78Rov8EGVEx8=21mA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 17:00 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-26 17:03 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5mvmCfLrxRHje6Wx5X84zxPEHwRMUJGsjvWBujMu7w841w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 17:06 ` Myklebust, Trond
[not found] ` <1335460011.9701.30.camel-SyLVLa/KEI9HwK5hSS5vWB2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 17:09 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5muXk+frkFz9X523Ny=RMwJGeqOPH75G1ToNa5QoMo5SkQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 17:10 ` Steve French
2012-04-26 21:57 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <10104.1335477476-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-26 22:05 ` Roland McGrath
[not found] ` <20120426220552.D98D62C0D3-j1d2VQoJOwwHfwO+Tb3JRVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-27 0:33 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-27 0:30 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-04-26 15:52 ` David Howells
2012-04-27 0:29 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <3F302713-B675-4BAA-B2B7-235E03C5975F-m1MBpc4rdrD3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-27 9:19 ` David Howells
2012-04-27 9:39 ` David Howells
[not found] ` <4111.1335519545-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-27 13:13 ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-27 15:10 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-04-27 19:31 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-04-28 0:58 ` Dave Chinner
2012-05-10 9:51 ` David Howells
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