On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 18:07 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > 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? It looks to me as though ext4 always saves inode->i_version provided you are using the default 256 byte inode size. Ted? Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
