linux-ext4 - Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 5/5] i_version: noversion mount option to disable inode version updates

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Message-ID: <20070711120346.GB26370@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:03:46 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, cmm@...ibm.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 5/5] i_version: noversion mount option to disable inode version updates

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:57:17AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Ah, this is the patch to disable i_version updates for Lustre.  I don't
> think any normal user would use this mount option, so I don't know if
> there is a need to document it.

This is a reason to not merge it at all.  If the only user of this is
the out of tree lustre code there is no need to put this in.  I should
rather stay in clusterfs' patchkit.

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