Re: REVIEW: xfs_reno #2

[Vlad Apostolov <vapo@xxxxxxx>]

Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> Vlad Apostolov wrote:
> > When the XFS parent pointers feature is released we would need to find
> > out to update the EA to point to the new inode parent directory. This 
> > may
> > not be that easy though.
> Really?
> Apart from the swapping of extents, reno uses standard calls doesn't it,
> in which case any movement of inodes will have the parent pointers
> updated by the normal vnode ops (e.g. mkdir, rename) in the kernel.
>
> --Tim
When a 64 bits parent inode directory is changed to 32 bits inode,
I couldn't see code that would change parent pointer EA of the
children to point to the new 32 bits parent. Please correct me if
I missed something.

Regards,
Vlad