linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/30] fs: inode->i

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Message-ID: <20170321134500.GA1318@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 06:45:00 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/30] fs: inode->i_version rework and optimization

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 05:43:27PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> To me, the interesting question is whether this allows us to turn on
> i_version updates by default on xfs and ext4.

XFS v5 file systems have it on by default.  Although we'll still need
to agree on the exact semantics of i_version before it's going to be
useful.