On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 01:11:44PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:46:34AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Linux 2.6.25 added the MS_I_VERSION flag for inode versioning. Some > > text on this should be added to the mount(2) man page. Could someone > > of you provide a short description of > > > > * What inode versions are used for > > I don't think it should be documented. It should never have been a > user-visible option to start with and I'm eventually going to fix that. > > The correct way to do this would be a feature flag in the superblock. Agreed, the intention was this was something which NFSv4 would request of the filesystem, by flipping a bit. I don't see a good reason why a user would ever want to explicit request 64-bit version numbers, since they're not even visible to userspace. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
