[RFC PATCH 0/4] vfs: allow querying i_version via statx

[Frank Filz]

> Recently I posted a patch to turn on the i_version counter unconditionally
in
> ext4, and Lukas rightly pointed out that we don't currently have an easy
way to
> validate its functionality. You can fetch it via NFS (and see it in
network traces),
> but there's no way to get to it from userland.
> 
> Besides testing, this may also be of use for userland NFS servers, or by
any
> program that wants to accurately check for file changes, and not be
subject to
> mtime granularity problems.

This would definitely be useful for NFS Ganesha.

Thanks

Frank

> Comments and suggestions welcome. I'm not 100% convinced that this is a
> great idea, but we've had people ask for it before and it seems like a
reasonable
> thing to provide.
> 
> Jeff Layton (4):
>   vfs: report change attribute in statx for IS_I_VERSION inodes
>   nfs: report the change attribute if requested
>   afs: fill out change attribute in statx replies
>   ceph: fill in the change attribute in statx requests
> 
>  fs/afs/inode.c            |  2 ++
>  fs/ceph/inode.c           | 14 +++++++++-----
>  fs/nfs/inode.c            |  3 +++
>  fs/stat.c                 |  7 +++++++
>  include/linux/stat.h      |  1 +
>  include/uapi/linux/stat.h |  3 ++-
>  samples/vfs/test-statx.c  |  4 +++-
>  7 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 2.37.1