From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Artem Bityutskiy Subject: Re: RFC: O_PONIES semantics (well O_REWRITE) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:51:26 +0300 Message-ID: <4A30D39E.5030201@gmail.com> References: <4A3057DD.1050703@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-fsdevel , Ray Strode , elb@psg.com To: Rik van Riel Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.230]:44989 "EHLO mgw-mx03.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762646AbZFKJwP (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:52:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A3057DD.1050703@redhat.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Rik van Riel wrote: > Here are my questions: >=20 > - Are these semantics useful for programs that want to replace > config (or other) files with new content? >=20 > - Are these semantics sane? >=20 > - 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. --=20 Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=90=D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC =D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E= =D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html