<div dir="ltr">This sounds hacky. In general anything that is specific about an inode, we try to store it in inode-ctx. Who uses this information about presence of video-file and how? May be with that knowledge there could be a possibility we can improve the solution. Do let us know the complete problem you are trying to solve.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 4:53 AM, Tahereh Fattahi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t28.fattahi@gmail.com" target="_blank">t28.fattahi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi<div>I want to add one boolean field to inode structure for a directory.</div><div> when it is 1 it means that directory has one or more video file. when it is 0 it means that there is no video file in that directory.</div><div>I can add this variable to inode structure and update it in server side, in posix_create function (when there is a create request for a video file).</div><div>question is about client knowledge about this variable. is it possible that client can see the amount of this variable of different servers (bricks) and OR them to one variable in cient's inode of the directory? in which xlator I should try in client side?</div></div>
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