Re: [PATCH] vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function

[Jeff Garzik]

On 11/11/2009 01:34 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Maybe this is enough for POWERTOP, however for general use, the dirty
> > type(data/metadata) and inode number may be valuable to some users?
>
> what can a user do with an inode number????

Inode numbers have always been visible to userspace...  IIRC, tar(1) 
uses the st_ino member of struct stat to detect hard links in certain 
cases.  ls(1) displays inode numbers with -i, find(1) looks for them 
with -inum, ...

	Jeff


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