Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/13] overlayfs stable inodes

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On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ideally we'd want dynamically sized inode numbers and we have that:
> file handles.  But file handles do more than inode numbers and they
> are more heavyweight.

And even more importantly, we can't force userspace to *use* file
handles instead of st_ino.  So that doesn't work.

Thanks,
Miklos



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