Re: Alternate Patch: [PATCH] Don't include device number in cache invalidation when running on NFS

On Sun, 22 May 2005, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

While reading liblockfile I saw the following:

This is _really_ Linux-specific afaik. Which is ok for git, but at the
same time it really makes me go "Ewww". It's testing that the major number 
is 0, and it would be a lot more cleaner to use 

	if (!major(st.st_dev))

but even that is very Linux-specific.

[PATCH] Don't include device number in cache invalidation when running on NFS

I'll have to think about it. Maybe I should just remove the st_dev check. 
I guess inode/size/mtime/ctime should be plenty safe enough in practice.

		Linus