Re: [patch 04/24] reiserfs: dont call notify_change

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:13:31AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Reiserfs calls notify_change() on it's private extended attribute
> files to resize and change ownership of these files.  Replace with
> reiserfs_setattr().
> 
> This is equivalent, except that:
> 
>  - i_alloc_sem locking is not performed around reiserfs_setattr() when
>    the size is changed
>  - security_inode_setattr() is not called before reiserfs_setattr()
>  - fsnotify_change() is not called after reiserfs_setattr()
> 
> None of the above is necessary, since the files are private to
> reiserfs and inaccessible from userspace.
> 
> Also remove setting of ctime on the xattr files.

I think splitting out the ATTR_SIZE case of reiserfs_setattr into
a separate helper would be better.  That would a) avoid the useless
c and mtime updates on the attribue inode and b) clean up
reiserfs_setattr a little bit.

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