From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from newverein.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3021621AEB0A7 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2017 02:44:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 11:47:08 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] fs, xfs: introduce S_IOMAP_IMMUTABLE Message-ID: <20170805094708.GB14930@lst.de> References: <150181368442.32119.13336247800141074356.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <150181369070.32119.1019092252036976783.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <150181369070.32119.1019092252036976783.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: linux-nvdimm-bounces@lists.01.org Sender: "Linux-nvdimm" To: Dan Williams Cc: Jan Kara , linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, darrick.wong@oracle.com, Dave Chinner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro , luto@kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig List-ID: NAK^4. We should not allow users to create immutable files. We have proper ways to synchronize I/O, and this is just an invitation for horrible abuses that should not be allowed, and which we've always people told not to do. _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm