On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 15:14 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> If you are talking about inode_init_once() here, I like the idea.
> i_generation must be initialized somehow, even a 4-byte information
> leak could be a problem.  But the initialization should happen in the
> rare event of allocating a slab page, not when reusing a deleted
> inode.
> 
> Jeff, why do you increment i_generation in new_inode instead of here?

I suppose we could do that...that might be better for stuff that calls
alloc_inode directly.

-- Jeff


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