Re: [PATCH 15/15] xfs: implement inode change count

Ben Myers
2013-06-28T18:00:55Z

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 04:04:59PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> For CRC enabled filesystems, add support for the monotonic inode
> version change counter that is needed by protocols like NFSv4 for
> determining if the inode has changed in any way at all between two
> unrelated operations on the inode.
>
> This bumps the change count the first time an inode is dirtied in a
> transaction. Since all modifications to the inode are logged, this
> will catch all changes that are made to the inode, including
> timestamp updates that occur during data writes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

Applied.