On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 05:30:59PM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote: > > It still is useless. E.g. btrfs has duplicate inode numbers due to > > subvolumes. > > At least it reflects what users see. Users generally don't see inode numbers. > > If you want a better pretty but not useful value just work on making > > i_ino 64-bits wide, which is long overdue. > > That would require too much work for me, and this would be a pain to > backport to all stable kernels. Well, if doing the right thing is too hard we can easily do nothing. In case it wan't clear, this thread has been a very explicit: Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
