* unsigned long event initialization
@ 2003-12-05 0:43 Avishay Traeger
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From: Avishay Traeger @ 2003-12-05 0:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
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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