Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751337AbbEGTKB (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2015 15:10:01 -0400 Received: from mail-vn0-f43.google.com ([209.85.216.43]:42154 "EHLO mail-vn0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750900AbbEGTJ7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2015 15:09:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150507172053.GA659@lenny.home.zabbo.net> References: <1430949612-21356-1-git-send-email-zab@redhat.com> <20150507002617.GJ4327@dastard> <20150507172053.GA659@lenny.home.zabbo.net> Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 21:09:58 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] vfs: add a O_NOMTIME flag From: Richard Weinberger To: Zach Brown Cc: Dave Chinner , Alexander Viro , Sage Weil , linux-fsdevel , LKML , "open list:ABI/API" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1236 Lines: 28 On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Zach Brown wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 10:26:17AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: >> On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 03:00:12PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote: >> > Add the O_NOMTIME flag which prevents mtime from being updated which can >> > greatly reduce the IO overhead of writes to allocated and initialized >> > regions of files. >> >> Hmmm. How do backup programs now work out if the file has changed >> and hence needs copying again? ie. applications using this will >> break other critical infrastructure in subtle ways. > > By using backup infrastructure that doesn't use cmtime. Like btrfs > send/recv. Or application level backups that know how to do > incrementals from metadata in giant database files, say, without > walking, comparing, and copying the entire thing. But how can Joey random user know that some of his applications are using O_NOMTIME and his KISS backup program does no longer function as expected? -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/