inode_peek_iversion(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🦋 inode_peek_iversion(9) — Kernel API Manual 🦋

okay so bestie, welcome to the inode_peek_iversion page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's short and sweet and honestly kind of a vibe.

💖 NAME 💖

inode_peek_iversion — read i_version without flagging it to be incremented 👀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

u64 inode_peek_iversion (const struct inode *inode );

like, that's it. that's the whole call. slay 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • inode — the inode from which i_version should be read 🫶 (yes, that exact inode, no substitutions, we're not doing that today)

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea ☕: this function reads the inode's i_version counter, but it does not register it as a query. peek, don't touch, iykyk 💀

Where you'll usually see this? local filesystems that need to store an i_version on disk. and in that situation — literally — it's not necessary to flag it as having been viewed, because the result won't be used to gauge changes from that point. so flagging it would just be doing the most for no reason 🙈

no cap, that's the whole thing. it's giving "look but don't commit" energy 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./include/linux/iversion.h — and the whole friend group, fr fr:

go read them all, they ate 💖

and that's the page!! 🎀 brought to you straight out of ./include/linux, dated October 2026, filed under inode_peek_iversion(9) — mwah, go peek some iversions bestie, ily ⭐🧚💜

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