On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:16:45PM -0700, Sage Weil wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > I just wonder how one would explain to users (or application writers) > > why changes to a file are reflected in the parent's rctime in one case, > > and not in another, especially if the primary link is otherwise > > indistinguishable from the others. The symptoms could be a bit > > mysterious from their point of view. > > Yes. I'm not sure it can really be avoided, though. I'm trying to lift > the usual restriction of having to predefine what the > volume/subvolume/qtree boundary is and then disallowing links/renames > between then. When all of a file's links are contained within the > directory you're looking at (i.e. something that might be a subvolume > under that paradigm), things look sensible. If links span two directories > and you're looking at recursive stats for a dir containing only one of > them, then you're necessarily going to have some weirdness (you don't want > to double-count). Yeah, there's no clear right answer--that's partly why I was curious about rctime specifically. --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
