Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jul 2006 11:50:12 +0200 (CEST) | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: ext4 features |
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 11:38 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > If the changes to these files are very infrequent compared to nanoseconds, > > you'll only need the version during some nanoseconds, and only during > > runtime. Having a second-change-within-one-timeframe-flag(*) instead of > > versions will be enough to make NFS mostly happy and only penalize your > > users for one nanosecond, and it won't force version-keeping into the > > filesystem. And besides that, all other filesystems will profit even > > without having nanosecond resolution nor versioning (but they'll suffer > > for up to a whole second). > > NFS never required file versioning. You're talking to the wrong person. > It does, however, need a change attribute that logs all changes to the > file. The above flag does not suffice to provide that.
ACK, that's why I'm suggesting this doublechange-flag. -- In the beginning, God created the earth and rested. Then God created Man and rested. Then God created Woman. Since then, neither God nor Man has rested. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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