Re: [POC/RFC PATCH] overlayfs: constant inode numbers

[Amir Goldstein]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> For non-lowets entry, we can provide mount option 'readdir_ino'.
> With readdir_ino, readdir pays a penalty of getxattr for any non-lowest
> entry (either OVL_XATTR_FH or OVL_XATTR_INO).
> Without readdir_ino, readdir will get d_ino = 0, in which case, at least
> `find <path> --inum=<n>` does the right thing (fallback to fstat for
> this dirent).
>

Well, I was wrong about findutils. The -inum filter seems to fail to find
the file if d_ino is set to 0.
That's at least the case for findutils 4.4.2 that I have on debian and
4.7.0-git that I built myself.
Now I have a simple command line to use for the xfstest...

Amir.