On Jul 06, 2007 09:51 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > The use of a mount option means the change attribute could be > inconsistent across mounts. If we really need this, wouldn't it make > more sense for it to be a persistent feature of the filesystem, set at > mkfs time? Yes, having it stored into the superblock in s_flags is probably a good idea. Kalpak, do you think you could get a patch that adds e.g. EXT4_FLAGS_NO_INODE_VERSION (like EXT4_FLAGS_SIGNED_HASH in e2fsprogs). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - 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