Re: [man-pages RFC PATCH v4] statx, inode: document the new STATX_INO_VERSION field

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On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 01:40:11PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Yeah, ok. That does make some sense. So we would mix this into the
> i_version instead of the ctime when it was available. Preferably, we'd
> mix that in when we store the i_version rather than adding it afterward.
> 
> Ted, how would we access this? Maybe we could just add a new (generic)
> super_block field for this that ext4 (and other filesystems) could
> populate at mount time?

Couldn't the filesystem just return an ino_version that already includes
it?

--b.



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