Kirill Korotaev wrote: > Jeff, > > is 100% uniqeness is so much required for pipe inode numbers? > AFAIU, it is not that critical for pipefs (unlike smb, nfs etc.) > > Thanks, > Kirill > There is no in-kernel reason why i_ino uniqueness is important for pipefs. Where it might matter is userspace. The i_ino value is used for: 1) the st_ino value returned in stat calls 2) the dentry name (generated as "[inode_number]") So while it's certainly not "correct" to have multiple inodes with the same number on any filesystem, it is probably more important in some places is others. For pipefs, maybe it isn't, especially given a potential 6% performance impact to fix it. Anyone else have thoughts? -- Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
