"lsattr -v" gives me the "version number" of given file(s).

What does this mean?

On Redhat 7.3, I could've sworn all the version numbers were 1 except those I changed with "chattr -v".

On Fedora11, they appear to be "random" numbers.

Setting version numbers or even having multiple versions of a file could be very useful, so I want to understand how "versioning" work in ext3.

lsattr -v gives me the "version number" of given file(s).

What does this mean?

On Redhat 7.3, I could've sworn all the version numbers were 1 except those I changed with chattr -v.

On Fedora 11, they appeared to be random numbers.

Setting version numbers or even having multiple versions of a file could be very useful, so I want to understand how "versioning" works in ext3.