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authorAlex Elsayed <eternaleye@gmail.com>2018-02-03 17:54:12 -0800
committerAlex Elsayed <eternaleye@gmail.com>2018-02-03 17:54:12 -0800
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Add i_version to the wishlist
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a purely-userspace mount.bcachefs helper for scanning that then invokes
the explicit form. Allows eliminating scanning/registration from the kernel.
* Strawman: mount -t bcachefs bcachefs -o dev=...,dev=... /mount/point
+ * Support the [`i_version` inode attribute][iversion], useful for NFSv4,
+ backup tools, indexers, and other things that want to have a counter
+ that updates whenever something changes about a file.
[AESSIV]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5297
[secdel]: https://lwn.net/Articles/462437/
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[pannier]: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fa5f/3aa6de62e126e6fe2986c70a34e4d678860b.pdf
[triple-parity]: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg28964.html
[RFC6330]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6330
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+[iversion]: https://jtlayton.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/the-inode-i_version-counter-in-linux/