Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't see a real attack vector here either, but OTOH is there a > potential user of this at the moment? I'm not sure. BSD stat has an st_gen, so it's possible something out there will use it if it exists. > An earlier chunk of the patch description says: > > (7) Inode generation number: Useful for FUSE and userspace NFS servers > [Bernd Schubert]. This was asked for but later deemed unnecessary > with the open-by-handle capability available > > ...the last bit seems to indicate that we don't really need this > anyway, as most userland servers now work with filehandles from the > kernel. > > Maybe leave it out for now? It can always be added later. Yeah... probably a good idea. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
