On Jul 11, 2007 09:47 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:37:45AM -0400, Mingming Cao wrote: > > This patch is on top of i_version_update_vfs. > > The i_version field of the inode is set on inode creation and incremented > > when the inode is being modified. > > Which is not what i_version is supposed to do. It'll get you tons of misses > for NFSv3 filehandles that rely on the generation staying the same for the > same file. Please add a new field for the NFSv4 sequence counter instead > of making i_version unuseable. You are confusing i_generation (the instance of this inode number) with i_version (whether this file has been modified)? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - 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
