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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: balajirrao@gmail.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BTRFS: Transpose parent_objectid and parent_gen in struct btrfs_fid
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:00:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1237395629.10384.2.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090318161626.16521.91662.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 16:16 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Transpose parent_objectid and parent_gen in struct btrfs_fid so that gen and
> parent_gen (both u32) are adjacent, thus packing nicely between the u64
> members.
> 
> This would seem to be reasonable as the parent generation number is always
> used if the parent objectid is.
> 

Won't this confuse any handles the clients already have if the server
reboots with the new handle format?

-chris



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-18 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-18 16:16 [PATCH] BTRFS: Transpose parent_objectid and parent_gen in struct btrfs_fid David Howells
2009-03-18 17:00 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2009-03-18 17:05   ` David Howells
2009-03-18 17:21     ` David Woodhouse
2009-03-18 17:38       ` David Howells
2009-03-18 17:46         ` David Woodhouse

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