Re: file handle in statx (was: Re: How to cope with subvolumes and snapshots on muti-user systems?)

Kent Overstreet
2023-12-12T15:16:36Z

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 09:56:45AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 08:32:55AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > > > STATX_ATTR_INUM_NOT_UNIQUE - it is possible that two files have the
> > > > same inode number
>
> This is just ugly with questionable value. A constant reminder of how
> broken this is. Exposing the subvolume id also makes this somewhat redundant.

Oh hell no. We finally get a reasonably productive discussion and I wake
up to you calling things ugly and broken, with no reason or
justification or any response to the justification that's already been
given?

Christain, that's not how we do things. Let's not turn what was a
productive discussion into a trainwreck, OK?