From: Mingming Cao Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] add noversion mount option Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:50:14 -0700 Message-ID: <1181854214.3883.10.camel@dyn9047017103.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1181835073.7779.9.camel@garfield> <1181836579.7779.46.camel@garfield> Reply-To: cmm@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4 , Andreas Dilger , Jean noel Cordenner To: Kalpak Shah Return-path: Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:39800 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755132AbXFNUuR (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:50:17 -0400 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5EKoGaT009665 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:50:16 -0400 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l5EKoGWg266872 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:50:16 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l5EKoG6e000484 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:50:16 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1181836579.7779.46.camel@garfield> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 21:26 +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote: > This patch adds a "noversion" mount option to disable inode version > updates. Can you explain a bit more why we need this mount option? Is it because of performance concern? Mingming