Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 5/5] i_version: noversion mount option to disable inode version updates

2007-07-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:57:17AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: Ah, this is the patch to disable i_version updates for Lustre. I don't think any normal user would use this mount option, so I don't know if there is a need to document it. This is a reason to not merge it at all. If the only

Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 5/5] i_version: noversion mount option to disable inode version updates

2007-07-11 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 04:31:44PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:37:53 -0400 Mingming Cao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add a noversion mount option to disable inode version updates. Why is this option being offered to our users? To reduce disk traffic, like noatime?

Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 5/5] i_version: noversion mount option to disable inode version updates

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:37:53 -0400 Mingming Cao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add a noversion mount option to disable inode version updates. Why is this option being offered to our users? To reduce disk traffic, like noatime? If so, what are the implications of this? What would the user lose?