David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > st_gen is > > > the inode generation number, st_btime is the file creation time, > > > st_version > > > is the data version number (i_version), > > > > Please define semantics for st_gen and st_version. > > I've been asked to drop st_gen for security reasons. > > I can't offhand think of a way to define st_version (or i_version, for that > matter) that would be consistent across all filesystems. I would lean towards > "gets incremented monotonically by 1 for each data write operation committed, > but not for any metadata operations", but I'm fairly certain this won't jibe > with disk operations.
I meant disk filesystems that we have now, not disk operations. David
