Re: Thoughts about cache consistency and directories in particular.

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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:52:57PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 17:34 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:43:49PM -0400, bfields wrote:
> > > Actually, I did this and then realized: I'm using IS_I_VERSION(inode) to
> > > turn on use of the i_version as the change attribute on both files and
> > > directories.  But it actually only makes a difference for files.
> > > 
> > > So I guess I should just be using i_version as the change attribute
> > > unconditionally for directories?  (Will that work on any filesystem?)
> > 
> > I'm still curious about this.
> 
> Few of the common filesystems actually store dir->i_version on permanent
> storage,

Hopefully ext4 is, at least in the IS_I_VERSION(inode) case?

--b.

> and none of the ramfs type filesystems appear to set
> dir->i_version at all.
> 
> Cheers
>   Trond
> 
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