Re: [PATCH 1/2] add lazy_getattr and lazy_readdir patches that defer i_ino assignment

[Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>]

>>Jeff,
>>
>>taking into account the discussion about unawarness/uncertainty
>>of whether *unique* inode number is needed at all on pipe fds and such
>>do we need this at all?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Kirill
>>
> 
> 
> Fair enough, perhaps we should just not worry about it, and assume that there 
> might be collisions.
> 
> If so, I should probably just have Andrew withdraw the patch I submitted earlier 
> to hash the inodes for pipefs. I'll look at other callers of new_inode and fix 
> up any of the ones that need fixing.
> 
> Does that seem like the most reasonable approach?
yep!

Thanks,
Kirill

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