Re: [PATCH 13/35] fallthru: ext2 fallthru support

[Jamie Lokier]

Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Valerie Aurora wrote:
> > I don't recall there being any technical reason not to look up the
> > real inode number.  I just wrote it that we because I was lazy.  So I
> > like returning the directory's d_ino better than a single magic
> > number, but I'd at least like to try returning the real inode number
> > too.
> 
> Note, "struct dirent" doesn't have d_dev, so you really can't return
> the "real" inode number, that's on a different filesystem and just a
> random number in the context of the the readdir in question.

Agree.  Does this inappropriate inode number for the union mount's
st_dev happen with stat() on the actual files too?  That could be bad.

-- Jamie
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