Trond or Bruce, can you please review these patch series and ack if you agrees? Thanks. As to performance concerns that raise before the inode version counter (at least for ext4) is done inside ext4_mark_inode_dirty), so there is no extra IO work to store this counter to disk. Mingming On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 03:37 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote: > This patch converts the 32-bit i_version in the generic inode to a 64-bit > i_version field. > > Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jean Noel Cordenner <jean-noel.cordenner@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Kalpak Shah <kalpak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Index: linux-2.6.21/include/linux/fs.h > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.21.orig/include/linux/fs.h > +++ linux-2.6.21/include/linux/fs.h > @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ struct inode { > uid_t i_uid; > gid_t i_gid; > dev_t i_rdev; > - unsigned long i_version; > + u64 i_version; > loff_t i_size; > #ifdef __NEED_I_SIZE_ORDERED > seqcount_t i_size_seqcount; > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - 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