linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] ubifs: Use 64bit readdir cookies

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Message-ID: <20170103195245.GB5712@fieldses.org>
Date:   Tue, 3 Jan 2017 14:52:45 -0500
From:   "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:     Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, david@...ma-star.at, tytso@....edu,
        dedekind1@...il.com, adrian.hunter@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ubifs: Use 64bit readdir cookies

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 06:05:54PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On 29.12.2016 17:59, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > OK, good.  So the random nonce is stored with the entry, and the hash
> > you can always recalculate from the filename, so if you return entries
> > in nonce+hash order, then you can keep that order stable even across
> > deletes and renames.
> 
> Yes.

Thanks, feel free to add a

	Reviewed-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>

to this and 6/6.

--b.