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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs_io: deprecate the "-F" foreign flag
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:04:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120203150443.GA28301@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F2AC948.1050909@redhat.com>

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:35:04AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> There's no real reason to force the user to specify "-F" for non-xfs
> files, when we can just test for that after it's opened.
> 
> * Remove the -F flag from usage() & man pages, but still accept it.
> * Set IO_FOREIGN when we open the file, if the fd tests as non-xfs.

Looks good. We probably should kill the IO_FOREIGN eventually too, but
let's do the user facing part first.


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-03 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-02 17:35 [PATCH] xfs_io: deprecate the "-F" foreign flag Eric Sandeen
2012-02-03 15:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2012-02-03 16:10   ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-13 19:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-14 17:18   ` Eric Sandeen
2012-03-08 21:39 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-08 22:16   ` Eric Sandeen
2012-03-08 22:20   ` [PATCH] xfs_io: allow -F in open args Eric Sandeen
2012-03-08 22:37     ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-08 22:37       ` Eric Sandeen
2012-03-08 22:39         ` Mark Tinguely

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