Re: [man-pages RFC PATCH v4] statx, inode: document the new STATX_INO_VERSION field

NeilBrown
2022-09-10T22:13:33Z

On Fri, 09 Sep 2022, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
> The machine crashes and comes back up, and we get a query for i_version
> and it comes back as X. Fine, it's an old version. Now there is a write.
> What do we do to ensure that the new value doesn't collide with X+1?

(I missed this bit in my earlier reply..)

How is it "Fine" to see an old version?
The file could have changed without the version changing.
And I thought one of the goals of the crash-count was to be able to
provide a monotonic change id.

NeilBrown