From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org
Subject: Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 4/5] i_version:ext4 inode version update
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:47:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070711084737.GA17675@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183275465.4010.130.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:37:45AM -0400, Mingming Cao wrote:
> This patch is on top of i_version_update_vfs.
> The i_version field of the inode is set on inode creation and incremented when
> the inode is being modified.
Which is not what i_version is supposed to do. It'll get you tons of misses
for NFSv3 filehandles that rely on the generation staying the same for the
same file. Please add a new field for the NFSv4 sequence counter instead
of making i_version unuseable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-11 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-01 7:37 [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 4/5] i_version:ext4 inode version update Mingming Cao
2007-07-03 6:49 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-07-03 21:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-03 6:55 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-07-04 5:26 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-07-04 3:31 ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-04 5:26 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-07-10 23:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11 8:47 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-07-11 11:52 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-11 12:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-11 11:54 ` Trond Myklebust
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