Re: rfc: [patch] change attribute for ext3

2006-12-14 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 20:52 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: What kind of requirements does NFSv4 place on the version? Monotonic is probably a good bet. The only requirement is that it be unique (assuming a file is never modified 2^64 times). Clients can't compare them except for equality.

Re: [RFC] [patch 2/3] change attribute for ext4: ext4 specific code

2006-12-14 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Dec 14, 2006 11:03 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: There was discussion on yesterday's call about whether or not 32-bit was enough for NFSv4, or whether it also requried 64-bits of change notification in the RFC's. So one of the questions is whether this is something that would justify