On Friday 08 April 2016, Deepa Dinamani wrote: > This is a preparation patch to add range checking for inode > timestamps. > > Extend struct super_block to include information about the max > and min inode times each filesystem can hold. These are dependent > on the on-disk format of filesystems. > > These range checks will be used to clamp timestamps to filesystem > allowed ranges. > > Individual filesystems do not have the same on disk format as > the in memory inodes. Range checking and clamping times assigned > to inodes will help keep in memory and on-disk timestamps to be > in sync. > > Another series will initialize these fields to appropriate values for > every filesystem. > > The fields are not used by vfs yet. > The exact policy and behavior will be decided in a separate patch. > > The original idea for the feature comes from the discussion: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/30/669 > > Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> -- 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
