From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753397Ab2CXOWO (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:22:14 -0400 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:53742 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752319Ab2CXOWN (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:22:13 -0400 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:22:12 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Christoph Hellwig , viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, sfrench@samba.org, sage@newdream.net, ericvh@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/25] cifs: implement i_op->atomic_open() and i_op->atomic_create() Message-ID: <20120324142212.GD25980@infradead.org> References: <1331155362-11132-1-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <1331155362-11132-14-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu> <20120313120649.GB27171@infradead.org> <878vj48vsr.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878vj48vsr.fsf@tucsk.pomaz.szeredi.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 02:39:16PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Apparently CIFS is the only one that can tell whether the file was > created or not. If the flag is set then notify_create() is called. > Users of NFS doesn't seem to care, it's of dubious value anyway, but why > not use the info when available? Given that *notify doesn't work correctly on non-local filesystes anyway I don't think it matters.