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I can probably mange to free up another 8 bytes in struct file by killing f_version and moving it into the few filesystems that care about it.

That would give us back 8 bytes for future expansions.

It's a rough draft and lacking commit messages but it should work (famous last words)...

https://github.com/brauner/linux/commits/vfs.file.f_version

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