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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] always set a/c/mtime through ->setattr
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 08:28:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080520062815.GA8324@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48326D66.8000106@nokia.com>

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 09:19:18AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Could we go a further and allow the file-system returning error if it
> for some reasons cannot change the time? For example, the FS could
> return -EIO or -ENOSPC up and VFS would have to free resources and
> propagate this error to user-space. Is this possible?

->setattr and notify_change already return errors, so we just need to
propagate them one level further.  Feel free to send a patch.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20  6:08 [PATCH] always set a/c/mtime through ->setattr Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-20  6:19 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-05-20  6:19   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-05-20  6:28   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-05-20  7:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-20  8:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-22 18:10     ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-22 18:10       ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-05-31 13:20       ` Al Viro
2008-05-31 13:24         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-31 13:35           ` Al Viro
2008-05-21  6:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 17:19   ` Chuck Lever

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