Re: inode generation numbers

[Andries Brouwer]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:08:37PM +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:
The i_generation field of a file can be read and set using
the EXT2_IOC_GETVERSION and EXT2_IOC_SETVERSION ioctls.

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