Re: inode generation numbers

From: Nikita Danilov
Date: Wed Sep 10 2003 - 03:20:39 EST


Andreas Dilger writes:
> On Sep 09, 2003 21:08 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> > for a user space nfs-daemon it would be helpful to get the inode generation
> > numbers. However it seems the fstat() from the glibc doesn't support this,
> > but refering to some google search fstat() from some (not all) other unixes
> > does.
> > Does anyone know how to read those numbers from userspace with linux?
>
> For ext2/ext3 filesystems you can use EXT2_GET_VERSION ioctl for this.
> Maybe reiserfs as well.

yes.

>
> Cheers, Andreas

Nikita.

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