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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/25] cifs: implement i_op->atomic_open() and
 i_op->atomic_create()
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:22:12 -0400
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 02:39:16PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Apparently CIFS is the only one that can tell whether the file was
> created or not.  If the flag is set then notify_create() is called.
> Users of NFS doesn't seem to care, it's of dubious value anyway, but why
> not use the info when available?

Given that *notify doesn't work correctly on non-local filesystes anyway
I don't think it matters.