Re: [Gluster-devel] preparent and postparent?

[Xavier Hernandez]

On 05/24/2012 03:31 AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Jeff Darcy<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > > in the protocol/server xlator, there are many occurences where
> > > callbacks have a struct iatt for preparent and postparent. What are
> > > these for?
> > NFS needs them to support its style of caching.
> Let me rephrase: what information is stored in preparent and postparent?
preparent and postparent have the attributes (modification time, size, 
permissions, ...) of the parent directory of the file being modified 
before and after the modification is done.

Xavi