Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: obtain the inode generation number from vfs directly
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2024-08-27 02:53:42
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 01:41:08AM +0000, Hongbo Li wrote:
Many mainstream file systems already support the GETVERSION ioctl, and their implementations are completely the same, essentially just obtain the value of i_generation. We think this ioctl can be implemented at the VFS layer, so the file systems do not need to implement it individually.
... then you should also remove the implementation from every filesystem, not just add it to the VFS.