On Thu 17-10-24 08:25:19, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 11:15:49AM -0400, Paul Moore wrote: > > Also good to know, thanks. However, at this point the lack of a clear > > answer is making me wonder a bit more about inode numbers in the view > > of VFS developers; do you folks care about inode numbers? > > The VFS itself does not care much about inode numbers. The Posix API > does, although btrfs ignores that and seems to get away with that > (mostly because applications put in btrfs-specific hacks). Well, btrfs plays tricks with *device* numbers, right? Exactly so that st_ino + st_dev actually stay unique for each file. Whether it matters for audit I don't dare to say :). Bcachefs does not care and returns non-unique inode numbers. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
