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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] always set a/c/mtime through ->setattr
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 08:28:15 +0200
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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.