Re: REVIEW: xfs_reno #2

Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-19T13:07:04Z

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?