1 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/10] cifs: define inode-level cache object and
4 Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:22:29 -0400
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56 On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:47:21PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:
57 > NFS ganesha pNFS also had a requirement for getting i_generation and
58 > inode number in userspace. So may be we should now look at updating
59 > stat or add a variant syscall that include i_generation and create time
62 What's missing in knfsd that you feel the sudden urge to move backwards
63 to a userspace nfsd (one with a horribly crappy codebase, too).