Re: [PATCH] fs: fix iversion handling

Dave Chinner
2013-12-02T23:25:13Z

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 07:17:07AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Currently notify_change directly updates i_version for size updates,
> which not only is counter to how all other fields are updated through
> struct iattr, but also breaks XFS, which need inode updates to happen
> under its own lock, and synchronized to the structure that gets written
> to the log.
>
> Remove the update in the common code, and it to btrfs and ext4,
> XFS already does a proper updaste internally and currently gets a
> double update with the existing code.
>
> IMHO this is 3.13 and -stable material and should go in through the XFS
> tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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