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Re: REVIEW: xfs_reno #2

To: Timothy Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: REVIEW: xfs_reno #2
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:39:18 +0000
Cc: Vlad Apostolov <vapo@xxxxxxx>, Barry Naujok <bnaujok@xxxxxxx>, "xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>, xfs-dev <xfs-dev@xxxxxxx>
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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?


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