Re: [PATCH v4 05/19] afs: convert to new i_version API

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Jan 02 2018 - 12:20:23 EST


Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Note that AFS has quite a different definition for this counter. AFS
> only increments it on changes to the data, not for the metadata.

This also applies to AFS directories: create, mkdir, unlink, rmdir, link,
symlink, rename, and mountpoint creation/removal all bump the data version
number on a directory by exactly one if they change it.

David