On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 14:53 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > Is stx_version a generation ID for the inode that can be used for the > NFSv4 Change ID? If so, that would be quite useful to us. Otherwise, > I'm not sure there's that much in there that's useful beyond what stat > already provides, unless I'm missing something. > Yeah, I think that's the idea behind that field in statx calls, but I'll note that I didn't wire that up here. That is the nice thing about the proposed statx API though. We can add stuff like that in a piecemeal fashion, as long as the callers check the stx_mask to make sure the returned values are legit. I'll look at whether it's possible to wire that up as well if it's helpful for ganesha. > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I have a patchset queued up for ceph that adds btime (birthtime) > > support to it. What was lacking though was a mechanism to get the btime > > out of the inode. > > > > Rather than cook up a brand new interface just for the btime, I decided > > to "borrow" the work that David Howells did with the new proposed > > statx() interface. The pull request to add this to ceph is up here: > > > > https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/9965 > > > > Sage has already closed it out which I take to mean that he has pulled > > the patches into a staging branch for eventual merge. > > > > It occurs to me though that I didn't ask anyone who is working on the > > samba vfs or ganesha fsal code whether they think this interface is > > acceptable. > > > > Since Samba and Ganesha are the targeted users of this interface, it'd > > be good to have developers from both communities take a look and see if > > there are any problems here. > > > > Does anyone see any issues with the above pull request? > > -- > > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
