Re: fixing the vnode lifecycle

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:22:36PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> >> Expect some file systems to use  a key size != sizeof(ino_t) -- nfs
> >> for example uses file handles up to 64 bytes.
> > IIRC all file systems provide a filehandle generation routine,
> 
> There was a time when fh generation was needed only for the filesystem
> to be NFS-exportable.  Is it now actually required for all filesystems?

Doesn't posix (more or less) require files to have inode numbers?
In particular I thought some of the fields reported by stat() are supposed
to uniquely identify the file (probably st_dev and st_ino).

Yes, I know some fs break this.

        David

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