Trond or Bruce, can you please review these patch series and ack if you
agrees? Thanks.
As to performance concerns that raise before the inode version counter
(at least for ext4) is done inside ext4_mark_inode_dirty), so there is
no extra IO work to store this counter to disk.
Mingming
On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 03:37 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote:
> This patch converts the 32-bit i_version in the generic inode to a 64-bit
> i_version field.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Noel Cordenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Kalpak Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Index: linux-2.6.21/include/linux/fs.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21.orig/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ linux-2.6.21/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ struct inode {
> uid_t i_uid;
> gid_t i_gid;
> dev_t i_rdev;
> - unsigned long i_version;
> + u64 i_version;
> loff_t i_size;
> #ifdef __NEED_I_SIZE_ORDERED
> seqcount_t i_size_seqcount;
>
>
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