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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: nfsv4@linux-nfs.org, Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	Kalpak Shah <kalpak@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 1/5] i_version:64 bit inode version
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 16:53:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070706225300.GB5633@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070706135156.GD10812@fieldses.org>

On Jul 06, 2007  09:51 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> The use of a mount option means the change attribute could be
> inconsistent across mounts.  If we really need this, wouldn't it make
> more sense for it to be a persistent feature of the filesystem, set at
> mkfs time?

Yes, having it stored into the superblock in s_flags is probably a good
idea.  Kalpak, do you think you could get a patch that adds e.g.
EXT4_FLAGS_NO_INODE_VERSION (like EXT4_FLAGS_SIGNED_HASH in e2fsprogs).

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-06 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-01  7:37 [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 1/5] i_version:64 bit inode version Mingming Cao
2007-07-02 14:58 ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-03 14:24   ` Trond Myklebust
2007-07-03 21:56     ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-03 22:15   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-03 23:32     ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-06 13:51       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-06 22:53         ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2007-07-09 21:16           ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-10 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-10 22:09   ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-11  1:22     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11  0:19       ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-11  4:22         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11  2:27           ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-11 16:57         ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-11  3:21       ` Neil Brown
2007-07-11  2:09         ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-11  5:17           ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11  3:18             ` Mingming Cao
2007-07-11  6:35               ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11  3:34         ` Trond Myklebust
2007-07-11 11:41           ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-11  5:05         ` Neil Brown
2007-07-11  5:22           ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-11 14:28           ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-07-11 20:04             ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-12  4:56               ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-11 17:26         ` J. Bruce Fields

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