| From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available | Date | Mon, 09 May 2016 14:00:25 +0100 |
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > st_gen is > > > the inode generation number, st_btime is the file creation time, st_version > > > is the data version number (i_version), > > > > Please define semantics for st_gen and st_version. > > I've been asked to drop st_gen for security reasons. > > I can't offhand think of a way to define st_version (or i_version, for that > matter) that would be consistent across all filesystems. I would lean towards > "gets incremented monotonically by 1 for each data write operation committed, > but not for any metadata operations", but I'm fairly certain this won't jibe > with disk operations.
I meant disk filesystems that we have now, not disk operations.
David
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