linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/6] inode version updated patches

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Message-Id: <1181854139.3883.7.camel@dyn9047017103.beaverton.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:48:59 -0700
From:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
To:	Kalpak Shah <kalpak@...sterfs.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>,
	Jean noel Cordenner <jean-noel.cordenner@...l.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] inode version updated patches

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 21:26 +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have updated the inode version patches and below are the details:
> 
> 64-bit-i_version.patch which only replaces the 32-bit i_version field in
> the generic inode with a 64-bit i_version field. The VFS-level updates
> of the inode version are still in the i_version_update_vfs.patch and
> this patch has been moved to the bottom of the patch series.
> 
> ext4_i_version_hi_2.patch was still using ei->i_fs_version instead of
> inode->i_version. I have corrected this patch.
> 
> Also there were whitespace problems in i_version_hi.patch.
> 
> I am also attaching a ext4_no_version.patch which adds a "noversion"
> mount option to disable inode version updates.
> 
> I am not sure why i_version needs to be updated in VFS since it is being
> updated in ext4_mark_iloc_dirty().
> 

Yes I think we can remove the inode version update in VFS patch. So I am
going to drop the patch 5/6.  Jean Noel, if you disagree, please let me
know.

> Well, these are lots of small patches and I am sending them separately
> so that they can be applied and commented upon easily.
> 

Thanks, I will update the patch queue with your patch series.

Mingming
> Thanks,
> Kalpak.
> 
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