From: Avishay Traeger <atraeger@cs.sunysb.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: unsigned long event initialization
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:43:19 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0312041928280.19421@compserv1> (raw)
Hello,
I am trying to figure out exactly how Linux assigns generation numbers to
inodes. In most filesystems (such as ext2/ext3) the generation number is
assigned to event++. This variable is declared in kernel/timer.c, but
apparently not initialized. I made 3 files, each one immediately after a
reboot, and this is the information I got:
generation#
10417bbc
bf612079
8cf4b829
>From what I can tell, event is only incremented in a few places in the fs
directory. Can someone please explain if event is actually initialized,
and if so, to what? And if it is initialized to a specific number, how
are these generation numbers so big and varied?
tia.
Avishay Traeger
File System and Storage Lab
Computer Science Department
Stony Brook University
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