Extended file stat: Splitting file- and fs-specific info?

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:55:16PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> The basic idea of generation numbers is to check if an inode was
> recycled, so only if the tuple of inode-number and generation-number
> matches we still have the same file. Kernel nfs

NFS does not and should not look at the inode generation.  Except for a
bit of legacy code for the old pre-Linux 2.4 filehandles it looks at the
opaque file handle returned and only interpreted by the filesystem.  Any
userspace NFS server should do the same.