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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nfsd: implement chage_attr_type attribute
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:24:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141112102440.GA31344@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141111222710.GY23575@dastard>

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:27:10AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> To clarify what Christoph wrote, XFS updates i_version is updated
> once per transaction that modifies the inode. So if a VFS level
> operation results in multiple transactions then each transaction
> will but the version.
> 
> It was implemented that way because nobody could tell me what the
> actual granularity requirement for change detection was.  Hence what
> I implemented was "be able to detect any persistent change that is
> made" to cover all bases.

Honestly the XFS implementation seems most sensible, and easiest to
verify for me.  I don't really understand the rationale behind the
fairly convoluted NFS4_CHANGE_TYPE_IS_VERSION_COUNTER semantics, and
I doubt you could actually implemet them on any Unix-like semantics.

Trond, given that the language in the standard is from you:

 1) how do you expect to use NFS4_CHANGE_TYPE_IS_VERSION_COUNTER
    semantics in the client
 2) what server do you have in mind that could actually implement them?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-12 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-08 12:11 nfsd: add support for the chage_attr_type attribute Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-08 12:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] nfsd: correctly define v4.2 support attributes Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-10 22:21   ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-11-11 10:22     ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-08 12:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] nfsd: implement chage_attr_type attribute Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-10 17:54   ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-11-11 10:27     ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-11 12:36       ` Trond Myklebust
2014-11-11 16:27         ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-11 22:27           ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-12 10:24             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-11-12 14:26               ` Trond Myklebust
2014-11-13  0:28                 ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-13 13:02                   ` Trond Myklebust
2014-11-13 21:47                     ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-13 23:54                     ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-14  0:43                       ` Trond Myklebust
2014-11-14  4:35                         ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-14 14:22                           ` Trond Myklebust
2014-11-15  1:24                             ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-11 21:42       ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-12-01 19:50         ` J. Bruce Fields
2014-12-02 17:23           ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-10 21:42 ` nfsd: add support for the " J. Bruce Fields

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