Hi Michael, it seems that the generation number of an inode is the generation number at creation time of the inode.
I fear that even though is possible to detect an extent update, looking at the generation number, it is impossible to detect a inode update. Chris, could help us to understand better that ? Thanks BR Goffredo On Saturday 27 March 2010, Dipl.-Ing. Michael Niederle wrote: > Hi, Goffredo! > > I checked all btrfs-item types (changed sk->max_type to 255 and removed the > filtering) connected with the updated directory's inode. > > But none of them had got a new generation number. > > I found the missing directory only using a more conventional tool that checked > all files and directories in both snapshots. > > Here the output from stat: > > >stat 2010-03-21/root/.googleearth/Temp/.kmztmp/ > File: `2010-03-21/root/.googleearth/Temp/.kmztmp/' > Size: 21340 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 directory > Device: 15h/21d Inode: 31757 Links: 1 > Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) > Access: 2010-02-19 22:12:25.339932662 +0100 > Modify: 2009-11-18 13:45:52.000000000 +0100 > Change: 2010-01-12 19:48:01.911913031 +0100 > > >stat 2010-03-22/root/.googleearth/Temp/.kmztmp/ > File: `2010-03-22/root/.googleearth/Temp/.kmztmp/' > Size: 21268 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 directory > Device: 16h/22d Inode: 31757 Links: 1 > Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) > Access: 2010-02-19 22:12:25.339932662 +0100 > Modify: 2010-03-21 21:49:16.512553912 +0100 > Change: 2010-03-21 21:49:16.512553912 +0100 > > Greetings, Michael > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- gpg key@ keyserver.linux.it: Goffredo Baroncelli (ghigo) <kreijackATinwind.it> Key fingerprint = 4769 7E51 5293 D36C 814E C054 BF04 F161 3DC5 0512 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
