On Dec 13, 2006 15:42 -0800, AVANTIKA R. MATHUR wrote: > - Change Attribute: > -- Andreas asked the bull team why a new field in the inode is > necessary rather than using the i_version field, and also mentioned that > all code changes can be in mark_inode_dirty. > -- The ctime cannot be used for the change attribute because if the > server clock is incorrect, the ctime can go backwards in time. > -- semantics needed: nfsv4 and bull team require 32 bits, clusterfs > needs 64 bits.
Minor clarification. Bull patch for NFSv4 only uses 32 bits, but apparently the NFSv4 spec calls for 64 bits. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
