On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 06:22:26PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Hi all, > > This series delivers a new feature -- metadata inode directories. This > is a separate directory tree (rooted in the superblock) that contains > only inodes that contain filesystem metadata. Different metadata > objects can be looked up with regular paths. If we use path names we should just use regular VFS path lookup for them. But why do we even need names? Can't we just work based on inode numbers?
