On Aug 23, 2013, Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 22, 2013, "Yan, Zheng" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We updated inode format version to 7 when introducing inode backtrace.
>> If we found a inode's format version < 7 when fetching the inode, set
>> the inode's backtrace_version to 0, to indicate the inode's backtrace
>> is out of data. When touching a inode with backtrace_version == 0, we
>> also update its backtrace.

>> +  if (pi->backtrace_version == 0)
>> +    pi->update_backtrace();
   
> AFAICT all this does is to update the backtrace version number in the
> cached-in-memory inode.  What am I missing?  Or is the code missing
> something? :-)

N/m, I see now that this eventually causes _mark_dirty_parent to be
called, which in turn gets the parent attribute updated.
inode_t::is_backtrace_updated() means exactly the opposite of what I
expected ;-)

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