Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I mean, we already have name_to_handle_at() for userspace to get a > unique, opaque, filesystem defined file handle for any given file. > It's the same filehandle that filesystems hand to the nfsd so nfs > clients can uniquely identify the file they are asking the nfsd to > operate on. That's the along lines I was thinking of when I suggested using a file handle to Kent. Question is, though, do we need to also expand stx_ino in some way for apps that present it to the user? David