Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/7] fs: Add inode_get_ino() and implement get_ino() for NFS

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On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 08:34:35AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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>

This must be typo and you want a NAK here, right?




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