On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:28:34PM +0530, Bhagi rathi wrote: > Thanks Dave for the response. Thinking futher, why is that xfs_iunpin has > to mark the inode dirty?
Because the inode has been modified, and instead of sprinkling mark_inode_dirty_sync() all over the code, we can do it in a single spot that catches all inode modifications. We don't have to think about it by doing this - inodes in transactions get marked dirty for free.... > All transactions generally modify one time or other, xfs_ichgtime takes care > of marking inode as > dirty. Sure, but there's plenty of other transactions that don't have such a convenient hook. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
