From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hch@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] VFS: allow filesystems to implement atomic open+truncate
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:44:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070921124420.GB8088@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070921123334.643828369@szeredi.hu>
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:23:47PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
>
> Add a new attribute flag ATTR_OPEN, with the meaning: "truncation was
> initiated by open() due to the O_TRUNC flag".
>
> This way filesystems wanting to implement truncation within their
> ->open() method can ignore such truncate requests.
>
> This is a quick & dirty hack, but it comes for free.
Fine with me as it doesn't cause any active harm, but expect this to
go away once the nfs intent mess is cleaned up and we'll get a real
method for this kind of thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-21 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-21 12:23 [patch 0/5] VFS changes Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:23 ` [patch 1/5] VFS: pass open file to ->setattr() Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:23 ` [patch 2/5] VFS: pass open file to ->getattr() Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 18:37 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-21 21:07 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:23 ` [patch 3/5] VFS: pass open file to ->xattr() Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 13:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 13:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 13:16 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 14:32 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-21 14:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 14:59 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 18:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-21 21:15 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 14:43 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 18:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-21 12:23 ` [patch 4/5] VFS: allow filesystems to implement atomic open+truncate Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:44 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-09-21 13:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 18:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-21 12:23 ` [patch 5/5] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capability checks Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 12:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 13:10 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 13:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 13:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 14:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 14:48 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-09-21 14:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-21 15:11 ` Miklos Szeredi
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