[RFC PATCH v1 1/7] fs: Add inode_get_ino() and implement get_ino() for NFS

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 04:35:24PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 08:34:35AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 05:30:59PM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> > > > It still is useless.  E.g. btrfs has duplicate inode numbers due to
> > > > subvolumes.
> > > 
> > > At least it reflects what users see.
> > 
> > Users generally don't see inode numbers.
> > 
> > > > If you want a better pretty but not useful value just work on making
> > > > i_ino 64-bits wide, which is long overdue.
> > > 
> > > That would require too much work for me, and this would be a pain to
> > > backport to all stable kernels.
> > 
> > Well, if doing the right thing is too hard we can easily do nothing.
> > 
> > In case it wan't clear, this thread has been a very explicit:
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 
> This must be typo and you want a NAK here, right?

Yes :)