linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 4/6] add noversion mount option

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Message-ID: <20070614214242.GS5181@schatzie.adilger.int>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:42:42 -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 4/6] add noversion mount option

On Jun 14, 2007  13:50 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 21:26 +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote:
> > This patch adds a "noversion" mount option to disable inode version
> > updates.
> 
> Can you explain a bit more why we need this mount option? Is it because
> of performance concern? 

This is the "disable i_version updates for Lustre" option we previously
agreed on in the concall.

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

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