[RFC][PATCH 06/10] cifs: define inode-level cache object and register them

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:47:21PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K. V wrote:
> NFS ganesha pNFS also had a requirement for getting i_generation and
> inode number in userspace. So may be we should now look at updating
> stat or add a variant syscall that include i_generation and create time
> in the return value

What's missing in knfsd that you feel the sudden urge to move backwards
to a userspace nfsd (one with a horribly crappy codebase, too).