On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 03:52:42PM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote: > > > Yes, but how do you call getattr() without a path? > > > > You don't because inode numbers are irrelevant without the path. > > They are for kernel messages and audit logs. Please take a look at the > use cases with the other patches.
It still is useless. E.g. btrfs has duplicate inode numbers due to subvolumes. If you want a better pretty but not useful value just work on making i_ino 64-bits wide, which is long overdue.
