On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:09:08 -0400 Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Chinneer pointed that we need to journal the version number > updates together with the operations that causes the change of the inode > version number, in order to survive server crashes so clients won't see > the counter go backwards. > > So increment i_version in fs code is probably the place to ensure the > inode version changes are stored to disk. It's seems update the ext4 > inode version in every ext4_mark_inode_dirty() is the easiest way. That still makes us dependent upon _something_ changing the inode. For overwrites the only something is mtime. If we don't want to have a peculiar dependency upon s_time_gran=1e9 (and I don't think we do) then I guess we'll need new code in or around file_update_time() to do this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
