On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 01:28:11PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > but mount(8) has already exposed this interface: > > iversion > Every time the inode is modified, the i_version field will be incremented. > > noiversion > Do not increment the i_version inode field. > > so now what? It's not like anyone's actually depending on i_version *not* being incremented. (Can you even observe it from userspace other than over NFS?) So, just silently turn on the "iversion" behavior and ignore noiversion, and I doubt you're going to break any real application. --b.