[PATCH] fs: fix iversion handling
Ben Myers
bpm at sgi.com
Wed Dec 4 15:25:04 CST 2013
Hey Christoph,
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 07:17:07AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Currently notify_change directly updates i_version for size updates,
> which not only is counter to how all other fields are updated through
> struct iattr, but also breaks XFS, which need inode updates to happen
> under its own lock, and synchronized to the structure that gets written
> to the log.
>
> Remove the update in the common code, and it to btrfs and ext4,
> XFS already does a proper updaste internally and currently gets a
> double update with the existing code.
>
> IMHO this is 3.13 and -stable material and should go in through the XFS
> tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Does this still need a btrfs ack, or is it ready to go?
-Ben
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