ntfs: remove i_version handling

NTFS keeps track of the i_version counter here, seemingly for no reason.
It does not set the SB_I_VERSION flag so it'll never be incremented on
write, and it doesn't increment it internally for metadata operations.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/inode.c b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
index 7c410f879412446e11b659454672b3bc15a3dbfe..1c1ee489284b7028d2e373fb93aa25328bc7db64 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
@@ -560,13 +560,6 @@ static int ntfs_read_locked_inode(struct inode *vi)
        ntfs_debug("Entering for i_ino 0x%lx.", vi->i_ino);
 
        /* Setup the generic vfs inode parts now. */
-
-       /*
-        * This is for checking whether an inode has changed w.r.t. a file so
-        * that the file can be updated if necessary (compare with f_version).
-        */
-       vi->i_version = 1;
-
        vi->i_uid = vol->uid;
        vi->i_gid = vol->gid;
        vi->i_mode = 0;
@@ -1240,7 +1233,6 @@ static int ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode(struct inode *base_vi, struct inode *vi)
        base_ni = NTFS_I(base_vi);
 
        /* Just mirror the values from the base inode. */
-       vi->i_version   = base_vi->i_version;
        vi->i_uid       = base_vi->i_uid;
        vi->i_gid       = base_vi->i_gid;
        set_nlink(vi, base_vi->i_nlink);
@@ -1507,7 +1499,6 @@ static int ntfs_read_locked_index_inode(struct inode *base_vi, struct inode *vi)
        ni      = NTFS_I(vi);
        base_ni = NTFS_I(base_vi);
        /* Just mirror the values from the base inode. */
-       vi->i_version   = base_vi->i_version;
        vi->i_uid       = base_vi->i_uid;
        vi->i_gid       = base_vi->i_gid;
        set_nlink(vi, base_vi->i_nlink);

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/mft.c b/fs/ntfs/mft.c
index ee8392aee9f6524ba8097c96a80959b6b1084dcd..2831f495a6740087c86547582e81cd40735c5e60 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ntfs/mft.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/mft.c
@@ -2641,12 +2641,6 @@ ntfs_inode *ntfs_mft_record_alloc(ntfs_volume *vol, const int mode,
                        goto undo_mftbmp_alloc;
                }
                vi->i_ino = bit;
-               /*
-                * This is for checking whether an inode has changed w.r.t. a
-                * file so that the file can be updated if necessary (compare
-                * with f_version).
-                */
-               vi->i_version = 1;
 
                /* The owner and group come from the ntfs volume. */
                vi->i_uid = vol->uid;