Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 1/5] i_version:64 bit inode version

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:19:16PM -0400, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 18:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > And how does the NFS server know that the filesystem implements i_version? 
> > Will a zero-value of i_version have special significance, telling the
> > server to not send this attribute, perhaps?
> 
> Bruce raised up this question a few days back when he reviewed this
> patch, I think the solution is add a superblock flag for fs support
> inode versioning, probably at VFS layer?

Sounds fine.  As long as it's something that's standard across
filesystems, then I can just do something like

	if (sb->s_flags & MS_CHANGEATTR)
		/* return i_version to client as change attribute */
	else
		/* return ctime to client as change attribute */

--b.