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 68F932095B9D1 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 09:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:13:47 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] fs, xfs: introduce S_IOMAP_SEALED Message-ID: <20170824161347.GC27591@lst.de> References: <150353211413.5039.5228914877418362329.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <150353212577.5039.14069456126848863439.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <150353212577.5039.14069456126848863439.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, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, "Darrick J. Wong" , Dave Chinner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Alexander Viro , luto@kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org List-ID: I'm still very unhappy about the get/set flag state. What is the reason you can't use/extend leases? (take a look at the fcntl man page and look for Leases). A variant of the concept is what the pNFS block server uses. _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm