Re: inode generation numbers

From: Andreas Dilger
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 15:11:08 EST


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.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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