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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-20 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ 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 6:28 ` 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
2008-05-31 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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