On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:19:16PM -0400, Mingming Cao wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 18:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > And how does the NFS server know that the filesystem implements i_version? > > Will a zero-value of i_version have special significance, telling the > > server to not send this attribute, perhaps? > > Bruce raised up this question a few days back when he reviewed this > patch, I think the solution is add a superblock flag for fs support > inode versioning, probably at VFS layer? Sounds fine. As long as it's something that's standard across filesystems, then I can just do something like if (sb->s_flags & MS_CHANGEATTR) /* return i_version to client as change attribute */ else /* return ctime to client as change attribute */ --b. - 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
