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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:16:07 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfs: Create dentries and inodes at dir open
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:12:28 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> Maybe I can just use a hash to generate he inode numbers from the name?
> Hopefully there will be no collisions. Then I don't need the dentry
> creation at all.

Maybe I could use a hash of the address of the meta data to create the
inode number? That may be unique enough.

-- Steve