Theodore Tso a écrit :
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 06:31:50PM +0100, Cordenner jean noel wrote:
There was discussion on yesterday's call about whether or not 32-bit
was enough for NFSv4, or whether it also requried 64-bits of change
notification in the RFC's. So one of the questions is whether this is
something that would justify requiring 64-bits --- and if so, maybe we
need to require that big inodes be used and store the entire 64-bit
value beyond 128 bytes. This would mean that NFSv4 cache management
couldn't be fully implemented without big inodes, or we'd have to make
do by using the inode ctime as a partial substitute.
What do you think?
- Ted
Well it seems that NFSv4 RFC requires a 64-bits notification.
The interest of the change attribute is that it has a simple
implementation and doesn't seem to penalize the performance.
Using a 32bits counter and the ctime can give a resolution less than ns.
But it seems to me that finner timestamp could be usefull in the future.
As the ns patch also use a counter, I don't know if a common
implementation would avoid using big inode.
I agree with Andreas saying that the "change_attribute" can be stored in
the i_version field.
Jean noel
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