Re: REVIEW: xfs_reno #2

Eric Sandeen
2007-11-19T15:52:50Z

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 :)

>> Vlad Apostolov wrote:
>>> When the XFS parent pointers feature is released...

-Eric