Re: MS_I_VERSION added in 2.6.25

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jun 26 2009 - 13:11:57 EST


On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:46:34AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Linux 2.6.25 added the MS_I_VERSION flag for inode versioning. Some
> text on this should be added to the mount(2) man page. Could someone
> of you provide a short description of
>
> * What inode versions are used for

I don't think it should be documented. It should never have been a
user-visible option to start with and I'm eventually going to fix that.

The correct way to do this would be a feature flag in the superblock.
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