sure! Regards, -Prashanth Pai ----- Original Message ----- From: "Humble Devassy Chirammal" <humble.devassy@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Prashanth Pai" <ppai@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Harshavardhana" <harsha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Ben England" <bengland@xxxxxxxxxx>, "gluster-devel" <gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:03:58 PM Subject: Re: update-link-count-parent POSIX xlator parameter Hi Prasanth, Its worth to have in our GlusterFS source doc . Can you send a patch on this ? --Humble On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Prashanth Pai <ppai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently came across this when I was looking for various ways to convert > GFID to Path[1]. > I have tested "build-pgfid" option for basic sanity. It's documented in > the commit msg of change[2]. Found one small issue[3]. There could be > others. > Users should be aware that these xattrs generated only for newly created > dirs/files and are not built for already existing dirs/files. > > [1]: > https://github.com/prashanthpai/sof-object-listing/blob/master/changelog/gfid-to-path.md > [2]: http://review.gluster.org/5951 > [3]: http://review.gluster.org/8352 > > Regards, > -Prashanth Pai > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harshavardhana" <harsha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Ben England" <bengland@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "gluster-devel" <gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:57:25 AM > Subject: Re: update-link-count-parent POSIX xlator > parameter > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Ben England <bengland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What is update-link-count-parent POSIX xlator parameter for? Is it ever > set by anyone and why? It appears to be off by default. Didn't see this > documented, but the log message in posix.c says: "update-link-count-parent > is enabled. Thus for each file an extended attribute representing the > number of hardlinks for that file within the same parent directory is > set." Why would this be necessary? > > > > It was supposed to be used by Quota or it uses it internally i am not > sure for ancestry paths and gfid to path conversion - AFAIK > > # gluster volume set <volname> build-pgfid on > > Enables this feature. Never tested it personally. > > -- > Religious confuse piety with mere ritual, the virtuous confuse > regulation with outcomes > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
