On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:28:08PM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote: > > We had thought of the term static because we wanted the inode to > be frozen. Entire metadata including the mapping. Our aim is to > do away with cluster locks for such inodes. For ios, we were planning > to limit it to only odirect and not change the mtime. That also means > no links, touch. Yes, "static" does not fit it like a glove but that's the > best we could come up with. Hmm, maybe "fixed_metadata"? The one thing that worries a bit is not touching mtime is definitely icky. I suppose it would improve performance even on local-disk file systems if we don't update mtime, ctime, or atime. So maybe that would be useful for folks who are trying to extract the last bit of performance out of their enterprise database. One thing I do like about fixed_metadata is that as far as chattr and lsattr is concerned 's' and 'S' are already taken. But 'f' and 'F' aren't allocated yet. :-) - Ted -- 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
