linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v4 05/19] afs: convert to new i

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Date:   Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:20:10 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/19] afs: convert to new i_version API

Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org> wrote:

> Note that AFS has quite a different definition for this counter. AFS
> only increments it on changes to the data, not for the metadata.

This also applies to AFS directories: create, mkdir, unlink, rmdir, link,
symlink, rename, and mountpoint creation/removal all bump the data version
number on a directory by exactly one if they change it.

David