From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch 1/3] change attribute for ext4: change attribute in the VFS Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:32:30 -0800 Message-ID: <20061130063230.GG6429@schatzie.adilger.int> References: <456DD754.3060803@bull.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([206.168.112.78]:4241 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757831AbWK3Gcc (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:32:32 -0500 To: Jean-Noel Cordenner Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <456DD754.3060803@bull.net> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Nov 29, 2006 19:54 +0100, Jean-Noel Cordenner wrote: > This part of the patch concerns the change attribute in the VFS layer. The > definition of the change_attribute field in the inode and its update. > > @@ -538,6 +540,7 @@ > struct timespec i_atime; > struct timespec i_mtime; > struct timespec i_ctime; > + unsigned long i_change_attribute; > unsigned int i_blkbits; > unsigned long i_version; > blkcnt_t i_blocks; It isn't clear to me why the change attribute isn't just the same as the i_version field? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc.