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From: Coly Li <coly.li@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	"Sergey S. Kostyliov" <rathamahata@php4.ru>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>,
	Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>, Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>,
	reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 0/20] return f_fsid for statfs(2)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:30:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4974B8C4.3070703@suse.de> (raw)

Currently many file systems in Linux kernel do not return f_fsid in statfs info, the value is set as
0 in vfs layer. Anyway, in some conditions, f_fsid from statfs(2) is useful, especially being used
as (f_fsid, ino) pair to uniquely identify a file.

Basic idea of the patches is generating a unique fs ID by huge_encode_dev(sb->s_bdev->bd_dev) during
file system mounting life time (no endian consistent issue). sb is a point of struct super_block of
current mounted file system being accessed by statfs(2).

The patches are quite simple, any feedback or patch review is welcome.

Thanks.
-- 
Coly Li
SuSE Labs






             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-19 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-19 17:30 Coly Li [this message]
2009-01-19 19:28 ` [PATCH 0/20] return f_fsid for statfs(2) Dave Kleikamp
2009-01-19 23:36   ` Andreas Dilger
2009-01-20  2:39     ` Dave Kleikamp
2009-01-20  4:13       ` Andreas Dilger
2009-01-20  4:30         ` Coly Li
2009-01-20  4:44           ` Andreas Dilger
2009-01-20  7:03             ` Coly Li
2009-01-20 18:48             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-22 19:36               ` Coly Li

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