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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:29:12 -0400 From: "Benjamin Coddington" <bcodding@...hat.com> To: "Jeff Layton" <jlayton@...nel.org> Cc: "Lukas Czerner" <lczerner@...hat.com>, tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: should we make "-o iversion" the default on ext4 ? On 20 Jul 2022, at 12:15, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Wed, 2022-07-20 at 11:56 -0400, Benjamin Coddington wrote: >> On 20 Jul 2022, at 10:38, Jeff Layton wrote: >>> On Wed, 2022-07-20 at 16:15 +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there a different way I am not seeing? >>>> >>> >>> Right, implementing this is the difficult bit actually since this uses a >>> MS_* flag. If we do make this the default, we'd definitely want to >>> continue allowing "-o noiversion" to disable it. >>> >>> Could we just reverse the default in libmount? It might cause this to >>> suddenly be enabled in some deployments, but in most cases, people >>> wouldn't even notice and they could still specify -o noiversion to turn >>> it off. >>> >>> Another idea would be to introduce new mount options for this, but >>> that's kind of nasty from a UI standpoint. >> >> Is it safe to set SB_I_VERSION at export time? If so, export_operations >> could grow an ->enable_iversion(). >> > > That sounds like it might be problematic. > > Consider the case where a NFSv4 client has cached file data and the > change attribute for the file. Server then reboots, but before the > export happens a local user makes a change to the file and it doesn't > update the i_version. Nfsd currently uses both ctime and i_version if its available, I'd expect that eliminates this case.
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