Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751238AbVJFRIG (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:08:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751156AbVJFRIG (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:08:06 -0400 Received: from 223-177.adsl.pool.ew.hu ([193.226.223.177]:29449 "EHLO dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751155AbVJFRID (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:08:03 -0400 To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: (message from Miklos Szeredi on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:02:52 +0200) Subject: Re: [RFC] atomic create+open References: <1128616864.8396.32.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:06:30 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 516 Lines: 14 > The reason why we do it as a lookup intent is because this has to be > atomic lookup+create+open in order to be at all useful to NFS. Oh, and btw there's a problem with atomic lookup+create+open: mounts. Do you want to follow mounts inside ->lookup(). Ugly. Miklos - 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/