On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 18:42 +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > hello, > > > > here is a small patch that adds the "change attribute" for ext3 > > file-systems; > > > > the change attribute is a simple counter that is reset to zero on > > inode creation and that is incremented every time the inode data is > > modified (similarly to the "ctime" time-stamp). > > I would really have preferred a full-blown 64-bit counter as per > RFC3530, but I suppose we could always combine this change attribute > with the high word from ctime in order to make up the NFSv4 change > attribute. That should keep us safe until someone develops a ramdisk > with < 1 nsecond access time. > do you mean something like "(ctime.tv_sec << 32) | change_attribute"? this would allow 2^32 inode changes per second. For ext3 it's hard to find unused bits in the on-disk inode structure, but ext4 inode may become larger in the future, allowing a 64bit counter. -- Alexandre - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
