From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Jean-Noel Cordenner <jean-noel.cordenner@bull.net>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch 1/3] change attribute for ext4: change attribute in the VFS
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:32:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061130063230.GG6429@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <456DD754.3060803@bull.net>
On Nov 29, 2006 19:54 +0100, Jean-Noel Cordenner wrote:
> This part of the patch concerns the change attribute in the VFS layer. The
> definition of the change_attribute field in the inode and its update.
>
> @@ -538,6 +540,7 @@
> struct timespec i_atime;
> struct timespec i_mtime;
> struct timespec i_ctime;
> + unsigned long i_change_attribute;
> unsigned int i_blkbits;
> unsigned long i_version;
> blkcnt_t i_blocks;
It isn't clear to me why the change attribute isn't just the same as the
i_version field?
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.
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2006-11-29 18:54 [RFC] [patch 1/3] change attribute for ext4: change attribute in the VFS Jean-Noel Cordenner
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