From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>,
elb@psg.com
Subject: Re: RFC: O_PONIES semantics (well O_REWRITE)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:51:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A30D39E.5030201@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A3057DD.1050703@redhat.com>
Hi,
Rik van Riel wrote:
> Here are my questions:
>
> - Are these semantics useful for programs that want to replace
> config (or other) files with new content?
>
> - Are these semantics sane?
>
> - What would be the best place to implement these semantics?
IMO, people won't use this. And IMO, if we want to fix broken
applications, we should do something transparent to them, i.e.
something similar to what ext4 did.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-11 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-11 1:03 RFC: O_PONIES semantics (well O_REWRITE) Rik van Riel
2009-06-11 5:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-06-11 14:06 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-11 14:23 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-06-11 14:32 ` Ray Strode
2009-06-17 13:52 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-11 9:51 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2009-06-12 2:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-12 2:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-06-12 17:06 ` Ray Strode
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