Both the inode number and the generation do not change on a live inode. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c =================================================================== --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c 2013-12-06 19:16:33.819188640 +0100 +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c 2013-12-06 19:17:04.087188019 +0100 @@ -112,15 +112,11 @@ xfs_find_handle( memset(&handle.ha_fid, 0, sizeof(handle.ha_fid)); hsize = sizeof(xfs_fsid_t); } else { - int lock_mode; - - lock_mode = xfs_ilock_map_shared(ip); handle.ha_fid.fid_len = sizeof(xfs_fid_t) - sizeof(handle.ha_fid.fid_len); handle.ha_fid.fid_pad = 0; handle.ha_fid.fid_gen = ip->i_d.di_gen; handle.ha_fid.fid_ino = ip->i_ino; - xfs_iunlock_map_shared(ip, lock_mode); hsize = XFS_HSIZE(handle); } _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs