Suresh Jayaraman sjayara...@suse.de wrote:
Did you mean we need to validate differently for different servers?
You may need to, yes, as different servers may make different attributes
available.
This isn't too bad. Each server index record in the cache has freeform
auxiliary data, just as
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:56:09 +0530
Suresh Jayaraman sjayara...@suse.de wrote:
On 06/28/2010 04:40 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
Reduce false inode collisions by using the CreationTime like an
i_generation field. This way, even if the server ends up reusing
a uniqueid after a delete/create cycle,
Make the file creation time, inode data version number and inode generation
number available on Ext4 by as xattrs named:
file.crtime
file.i_generation
file.i_version (directories only for ext4)
This could then be used by Samba as the SMB protocol passes the file creation
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jeremy Allison j...@samba.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:33:10AM -0500, Steve French wrote:
It would be easy enough to do something similar for crtime for cifs
(it may also be possible to do something similar to
i_generation and i_version at least for
