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Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:41:54 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
To:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Kalpak Shah <kalpak@...sterfs.com>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jean noel Cordenner <jean-noel.cordenner@...l.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Separated 64-bit i_version patch

On Jun 14, 2007  13:58 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 21:26 +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
> > This patch converts the 32-bit i_version in the generic inode to a 64-
> > bit i_version field.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Noel Cordenner <jean-noel.cordenner@...l.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Kalpak Shah <kalpak@...sterfs.com>
> > 
> > @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ struct inode {
> >         uid_t                   i_uid;
> >         gid_t                   i_gid;
> >         dev_t                   i_rdev;
> > -       unsigned long           i_version;
> > +       uint64_t                i_version;
> >         loff_t                  i_size;
> >  #ifdef __NEED_I_SIZE_ORDERED
> >         seqcount_t              i_size_seqcount;
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> I think u64 is better here. It seems uint64_t is not defined in some
> cases and rarely being used.

Agreed.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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