Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/7] fs: Add inode_get_ino() and implement get_ino() for NFS

Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-11T13:23:48Z

On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 03:20:30PM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 05:54:37AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 02:47:14PM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> > > How to get the inode number with ->getattr and only a struct inode?
> >
> > You get a struct kstat and extract it from that.
>
> Yes, but how do you call getattr() without a path?

You don't because inode numbers are irrelevant without the path.