Re: [patch 0/2] i_version update

2007-05-31 Thread Mingming Cao
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 10:33 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:32:57PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:21 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:25:31PM +0200, Jean noel Cordenner wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > This is an upda

Re: [patch 0/2] i_version update

2007-05-31 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 10:01 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > This will provide a change number that normally changes only when the > file changes and doesn't require any extra storage on disk. > The change number will change inappropriately only when the inode has > fallen out of cache and is being relo

Re: [patch 0/2] i_version update

2007-05-30 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:32:57PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:21 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:25:31PM +0200, Jean noel Cordenner wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > This is an update of the i_version patch. > > > The i_version field is a 64bit coun

Re: [patch 0/2] i_version update

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday May 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:25:31PM +0200, Jean noel Cordenner wrote: > > > The aim is to fulfill a NFSv4 requirement for rfc3530: > > "5.5. Mandatory Attributes - Definitions > > Name# DataType Access Description > > __

Re: [patch 0/2] i_version update

2007-05-30 Thread Mingming Cao
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:21 +1000, David Chinner wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:25:31PM +0200, Jean noel Cordenner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is an update of the i_version patch. > > The i_version field is a 64bit counter that is set on every inode > > creation and that is incremented every

Re: [patch 0/2] i_version update

2007-05-29 Thread David Chinner
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:25:31PM +0200, Jean noel Cordenner wrote: > Hi, > > This is an update of the i_version patch. > The i_version field is a 64bit counter that is set on every inode > creation and that is incremented every time the inode data is modified > (similarly to the "ctime" time-sta

[patch 0/2] i_version update

2007-05-25 Thread Jean noel Cordenner
Hi, This is an update of the i_version patch. The i_version field is a 64bit counter that is set on every inode creation and that is incremented every time the inode data is modified (similarly to the "ctime" time-stamp). The aim is to fulfill a NFSv4 requirement for rfc3530: "5.5. Mandatory Att