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From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] [RFC] NFS: Support the AT_NO_TIMES and AT_STRICT fstatat flags
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:47:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C06B4C94-A44E-48D4-874E-BE3F06FDBB5F@linuxhacker.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239142685.8424.9.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>

Hello!

On Apr 7, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> +	if (!(flags & AT_NO_TIMES))
> +		goto do_revalidate;

This is already a shortcoming of the less-fine grained control.
Suppose a normal ls -l command, it does not care about atimes,
only mtimes, but there is no way to specify it and NFS only
cares if atimes were requested or not.

Bye,
     Oleg

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-07  8:01 [PATCH 2/2] [RFC] sys_fstatat: Update file systems for new ->getattr callback Mark Fasheh
2009-04-07 22:18 ` [PATCH 3/2] [RFC] NFS: Support the AT_NO_TIMES and AT_STRICT fstatat flags Trond Myklebust
2009-04-07 22:47   ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2009-04-07 23:07     ` Trond Myklebust

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