Re: [RFC] [patch 1/3] change attribute for ext4: change attribute in the VFS

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On Nov 29, 2006  19:54 +0100, Jean-Noel Cordenner wrote:
> This part of the patch concerns the change attribute in the VFS layer. The 
> definition of the change_attribute field in the inode and its update.
> 
> @@ -538,6 +540,7 @@
>         struct timespec         i_atime;
>         struct timespec         i_mtime;
>         struct timespec         i_ctime;
> +       unsigned long           i_change_attribute;
>         unsigned int            i_blkbits;
>         unsigned long           i_version;
>         blkcnt_t                i_blocks;

It isn't clear to me why the change attribute isn't just the same as the
i_version field?

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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