This sounds hacky. In general anything that is specific about an inode, we
try to store it in inode-ctx. Who uses this information about presence of
video-file and how? May be with that knowledge there could be a possibility
we can improve the solution. Do let us know the complete problem you are
trying to solve.

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 4:53 AM, Tahereh Fattahi <t28.fatt...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
> I want to add one boolean field to inode structure for a directory.
>  when it is 1 it means that directory has one or more video file. when it
> is 0 it means that there is no video file in that directory.
> I can add this variable to inode structure and update it in server side,
> in posix_create function (when there is a create request for a video file).
> question is about client knowledge about this variable. is it possible
> that client can see the amount of this variable of different servers
> (bricks) and OR them to one variable in cient's inode of the directory? in
> which xlator I should try in client side?
>
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