Re: REVIEW: xfs_reno #2

[Vlad Apostolov <vapo@xxxxxxx>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>   
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:20:28PM +1100, 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.
> > >       
> > What parent pointers?
> >
> >
> >     
> The ones not yet released I guess :)
>   
It is a released and existing feature on XFS for Irix, that we are back 
porting to
Linux. You will see some patches soon.

Regards,
Vlad
>   
> > > Vlad Apostolov wrote:
> > >       
> > > > When the XFS parent pointers feature is released...
> > > >         
> -Eric
>