Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 1/5] i_version:64 bit inode version

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jul 10 2007 - 19:33:00 EST


On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:37:04 -0400
Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch converts the 32-bit i_version in the generic inode to a 64-bit
> i_version field.
>

That's obvious from the patch. But what was the reason for making this
(unrelated to ext4) change?

Please update the changelog for this.

> Index: linux-2.6.21/include/linux/fs.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21.orig/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ linux-2.6.21/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ struct inode {
> uid_t i_uid;
> gid_t i_gid;
> dev_t i_rdev;
> - unsigned long i_version;
> + u64 i_version;
> loff_t i_size;
> #ifdef __NEED_I_SIZE_ORDERED
> seqcount_t i_size_seqcount;

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