• Jakob Unterwurzacher's avatar
    nodefs: do not overwrite the "out.Ino" inode number · 1b3f7953
    Jakob Unterwurzacher authored
    ...if it has already been set by the filesystem.
    
    "out.Ino" is the user-facing inode number that is displayed by "ls -li".
    
    This change allows loopback filesystems to expose the inode number of
    the underlying filesystem.
    As a "real" inode number, this one is stable for the lifetime of the file,
    even across remounts.
    
    libfuse has the `use_ino` option that allows the inode numbers to be set
    arbitrarily as well. This has been used by EncFS for years.
    
    The Linux kernel stores the inode number in `orig_ino`. Grepping in
    `fs/fuse` shows that it is only read once in `fuse_update_attributes`,
    and only if the `stat` argument is not NULL. There is only one caller
    that passes that argument: `fuse_getattr`.
    
    In short, the kernel does not use the inode number for anything but
    reporting it via `stat()`, hence setting the inode number is safe.
    
    This functionality will be used for improving log output in gocryptfs,
    where file names cannot be used because they are encrypted.
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