Re: REVIEW: xfs_reno #2

Vlad Apostolov
2007-11-19T22:08:15Z

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:20:28PM +1100, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
>>
>>> Vlad Apostolov wrote:
>>>
>>>> When the XFS parent pointers feature is released we would need to find
>>>> out to update the EA to point to the new inode parent directory. This may
>>>> not be that easy though.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Really?
>>> Apart from the swapping of extents, reno uses standard calls doesn't it,
>>> in which case any movement of inodes will have the parent pointers
>>> updated by the normal vnode ops (e.g. mkdir, rename) in the kernel.
>>>
>> What parent pointers?
>>
>>
>>
>
> The ones not yet released I guess :)
>
It is a released and existing feature on XFS for Irix, that we are back
porting to
Linux. You will see some patches soon.

Regards,
Vlad
>
>>> Vlad Apostolov wrote:
>>>
>>>> When the XFS parent pointers feature is released...
>>>>
>
> -Eric
>