[EXT4 set 4][PATCH 4/5] i_version:ext4 inode version update

Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no
Wed Jul 11 07:54:37 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 09:47 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:37:45AM -0400, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > This patch is on top of i_version_update_vfs.
> > The i_version field of the inode is set on inode creation and incremented when
> > the inode is being modified.
> 
> Which is not what i_version is supposed to do.  It'll get you tons of misses
> for NFSv3 filehandles that rely on the generation staying the same for the
> same file.  Please add a new field for the NFSv4 sequence counter instead
> of making i_version unuseable.

Aren't you confusing i_version and i_generation here? Those are two
separate inode fields.

Cheers
  Trond



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