nfsd: support ext4 i_version

ext4 supports a real NFSv4 change attribute, which is bumped whenever
the ctime would be updated, including times when two updates arrive
within a jiffy of each other.  (Note that although ext4 has space for
nanosecond-precision ctime, the real resolution is lower: it actually
uses jiffies as the time-source.)  This ensures clients will invalidate
their caches when they need to.

There is some fear that keeping the i_version up-to-date could have
performance drawbacks, so for now it's turned on only by a mount option.
We hope to do something better eventually.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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J. Bruce Fields
2009-04-16 17:33:25 -04:00
parent 3352d2c2d0
commit c654b8a9cb
4 changed files with 63 additions and 25 deletions

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@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ void fill_post_wcc(struct svc_fh *fhp)
err = vfs_getattr(fhp->fh_export->ex_path.mnt, fhp->fh_dentry,
&fhp->fh_post_attr);
fhp->fh_post_change = fhp->fh_dentry->d_inode->i_version;
if (err)
fhp->fh_post_saved = 0;
else