Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:01:17 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] inode generation numbers. |
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, G. Allen Morris III wrote: > > Are there any adverse effects to adding a field to `struct inode'? > I would like to add `u32 i_generation' for the reasons outlined > below.
In the long run, no. But I'm not accepting test-patches with it, simply because it breaks module compatibility, so I'd like to have a really strong release candidate before I do that. And I'd prefer to try to avoid it for 2.2.x at all.
Linus
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