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Message-ID: <20070718164201.GA2668@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:42:01 -0400
From: Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
To: Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm@...il.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS -git changes and Linux-VServer patch porting
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:49:07PM +0200, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote:
> Linux-VServer patch adds 2 new flags: barrier and iunlink.
> With recent changes in -git (filestreams), XFS now lacks di_flags bits
> to add these.
> iunlink flag adds Copy-on-Write semantics to hard links, while barrier
> flag signifies a filesystem barrier no virtual context can pass.
>
> I'd like to know how to possibly resolve this problem w/o negatively
> impacting performance (especially of iunlink) or changing on-disc
> format in an incompatible way, as well as being more future-proof.
A while back, I mentioned that it would be nice to have a whiteout inode
flag (I've since changed my mind) but the answer I got from Dave Chinner,
et. al., was to use xattrs.
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.
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