> with a stat. So either you have a clock good enough to give a distinct > timestamp for all of those, or you fall back on a global counter that > ends up serializing all IO. I think. I admit I'm not sure I understand Not global counter, but per inode. That's very reasonable because there's already locking on the inode level. -Andi -- 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