[Cluster-devel] [GFS2 PATCH] GFS2: eliminate i_generation from memory

Bob Peterson rpeterso at redhat.com
Wed Mar 23 13:55:45 UTC 2011


----- Original Message -----
| Hi,
| 
| We still need that, it is the generation number for NFS. Although it
| is
| also identical to the no_formal_ino in recent kernels,
| 
| Steve.

Are you saying that nfs manipulates gfs2's i_generation value in
the incore gfs2_inode structure?  If so, that scares me; there
should be an interface to do that.  If not, it must be for some
future development, because we don't reference the value anywhere.

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat File Systems




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