Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 May 2023 16:02:04 +1000 | From | Dave Chinner <> | Subject | Re: Re: [PATCH] xfs: xfs_nfs_get_inode support zero generation |
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On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:53:29AM +0800, renlei1@chinatelecom.cn wrote: > Yup, gen is 0 for the inodes created by libxfs, such as rootino, rbmino, rsumino. > but those inodes will never be freed, and gen will always zero.
Yes, but why does that even matter for file handle verification?
> so I think bypass the verification if gen==0 is still valid.
Did you think about what happens when an inode->gen overflows from 0xffffffff to 0 as part of a normal unlink/create cycle?
-Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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