On Jan 23, 2007 18:23 +0100, Cordenner jean noel wrote: > I've updated what was previously the change attribute patch for ext4 > initially posted by Alexandre Ratchov. The previous patch was > introducing a change_attribute field, now it uses the i_version field of > the inode. > > The i_version field is a counter that is set on every inode creation and > that is incremented every time the inode data is modified (similarly to > the "ctime" time-stamp). > The aim is to fulfill NFSv4 requirements for rfc3530. > For the moent, the counter is only a 32bit value but it is planned to be > 64bit as required. > > The patch is divided into 3 parts, the vfs layer, the ext4 specific code > and an user part to check i_version changes via stat.
Have you had a chance to look at the performance impact of this change (possible with oprofile)? Always marking the inodes dirty for ext3 may have some noticable overhead. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - 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
