From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boaz Harrosh Subject: Re: [7/8] Single call interface to getattr/setattr Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 19:41:44 +0300 Message-ID: <5162F348.4030908@panasas.com> References: <516299A5.8030109@panasas.com> <51629F4B.2010708@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , Jeff Layton , "Lieb, Jim" , Venkateswararao Jujjuri , linux-fsdevel , , Ganesha NFS List , DENIEL Philippe , Steve Dickson , Steven Whitehouse To: Frank S Filz Return-path: Received: from natasha.panasas.com ([67.152.220.90]:50557 "EHLO natasha.panasas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935272Ab3DHQnL (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Apr 2013 12:43:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/04/13 18:29, Frank S Filz wrote: > Boaz Harrosh wrote on 04/08/2013 03:43:23 AM: >> [7/8] Single call interface to getattr/setattr >> >> From: Frank S Filz >> >> Frank this is your call, I'm not at all familiar with this subject. >> Shoot ... > > This is mostly on the setattr side, being able to do the following in a single call (with each item optional): > > set mode > set acl > set owner > set owner_group > set atime > set mtime > set size > > on the getattr side, the same, which would be a stat+getacl merged into one call. > > Would be nice to be able to do an create and open(O_CREAT) with all > those attr also (again, each attr being optional). > Just adding a comment. If we are going into new territory here then these should be RICH-ACLs and not POSIX ACLs, kill two birds with one stone. > Frank > Thanks Frank Boaz